Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication
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2 hours ago
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conroydave
1 hour ago
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i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.
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cmiles8
2 hours ago
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This has been an obvious feature request for many years, but glad to see AWS investing in what started to feel like a service that was mostly abandoned for investment.
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jeffwask
9 minutes ago
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I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.
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ecshafer
57 minutes ago
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Cognito just supported multi-region? For identity this seems like a very high priority issue. I was at a company 10 years ago that we didn't use Cognito to build, and build our own AWS based identity because Cognito didn't have this (and just seemed pretty half-baked).
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arpinum
41 minutes ago
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They wanted to rebase onto a different database first to make multi-region easier, but that work took many years.
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jwnin
1 hour ago
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This prevented us from failing over during last October's outage (unless we wanted to reset everyone's password). Glad to see AWS focusing in on resiliency.
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mooreds
2 hours ago
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I work for a Cognito competitor, but I am glad to see them investing in improving the lives of folks using this native AWS service.

It felt like Cognito was abandoned for a while.

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UltraSane
2 hours ago
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This should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.
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semiquaver
1 hour ago
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I think cognito was internally low-staff/KTLO for a while and that changed recently.
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mooreds
1 hour ago
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What does KLTO mean?
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Insanity
58 minutes ago
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To add to the other posters, keep-the-lights-on usually means a product has no active feature development. It’s just supported with on-call and maybe some bug fixes depending on capacity.

No clue if Cognito actually was KTLO though.

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christophercork
1 hour ago
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"Keep Lights To On." It's the post-it on the light switch wired to the Cognito server.
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xyzzy_plugh
1 hour ago
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Probably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On
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