Detecting and remediating inactive user accounts with Amazon Cognito

This article provides a solution for detecting and disabling inactive user accounts in Amazon Cognito to improve security and meet compliance requirements. It uses serverless technologies like AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB to track user sign-in activities and automatically disable accounts that remain inactive beyond a specified threshold.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Solution overview and implementation details
• Prerequisites and step-by-step deployment instructions
• How to integrate the solution with an existing Amazon Cognito user pool
• Design considerations like schema configuration, handling API quotas, and using dead-letter queues
• Considerations for multi-user pool and multi-account environments
• Clean-up steps to decommission the solution
• Conclusion highlighting the importance of maintaining active user pools