Cognito User Profiles Export Reference Architecture

Build a framework for exporting user profile and group information from your Amazon Cognito user pools

Important: Cognito User Profiles Export Reference Architecture will retire in March 2025. For more information, refer to Build a framework for exporting user profile and group information from your Amazon Cognito user pools. You can also find other solutions in the AWS Solutions Library.

Overview

This AWS Solution helps you export Amazon Cognito user information to facilitate more complex user queries, or to provide resiliency in case of Regional failure or accidental deletion of your users' profiles. It is designed to provide a framework for exporting user profile and group information from a Cognito user pool, allowing you to focus on extending this solution’s functionality, rather than managing the underlying infrastructure operation.

This solution does not export sensitive information, such as user passwords. It also does not support user pools with multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated and advanced security features. For a full list of limitations, refer to the implementation guide.
 

Benefits

Scheduled export

The AWS Step Functions export workflow periodically exports non-sensitive user profiles, groups, and group membership details from your user pool to an Amazon DynamoDB table. Choose whether to run the export workflow every 1, 7, or 30 days.

Added resiliency

DynamoDB global tables with automatic, asynchronous replication provide a backup Region for added resiliency. This ensures that you still have access to a backup of your users, groups, and group memberships if your primary Region is unavailable.

Import from Amazon DynamoDB

The Step Functions import workflow can be used in either the primary or backup Region to populate a new, empty user pool with data from the DynamoDB global table.

Technical details

You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.

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