This recipe simply codifies the creation of an AWS Cognito user pool. Like any other infrastructure resource, we want to treat it as code and manage it in a continuous delivery pipeline. For this recipe, we define the bare essentials. You will want to define any additional attributes that you want the pool to manage. For this recipe, we just specify the email attribute.
It is important to understand that these attributes cannot be changed via CloudFormation without creating a new user pool, which has a ripple effect on any resources that are dependent on the user pool. So, expect to focus some effort on experimenting upfront with the right combination of attributes.
For each application that will rely on this user pool, we ...
