Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to detect additional risks and to cover custom authentication flows
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This article announces an enhancement to Amazon Cognito's Advanced Security Features (ASF) to improve risk detection and support custom authentication flows. The key points are:
Specifically, the article covers:
- ASF now detects "impossible travel" risk, where a user signs in from two distant locations in an implausible timeframe
- ASF now supports risk detection for custom authentication flows, improving security for apps using custom authentication factors
- Amazon Cognito simplifies adding authentication, authorization, and user management to web and mobile apps, supporting social and enterprise identity providers
- This new ASF enhancement is now available in all AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud Regions
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