From 2 weeks to 2 minutes: Amazon Cognito launches Provisioned limits for self-service rate limit management

This article announces provisioned limits for Amazon Cognito, enabling self-service rate limit management through the AWS Management Console instead of traditional support tickets.

• Adjust authentication rate limits on-demand with changes taking effect immediately
• Provisioned limits (console) control capacity; account-level max limits (Service Quotas) set the ceiling
• Billed only for provisioned capacity above the default limit, enabling cost optimization
• Approximately 90% of account-level max increase requests auto-approve within minutes
• Multi-tenant SaaS providers can programmatically manage capacity per tenant using UpdateProvisionedLimit API
• Reduces capacity planning from weeks in advance to minutes, supporting seasonal traffic spikes

Provisioned limits transform authentication infrastructure scaling by providing precise, self-service control over capacity and costs without manual support processes.