Federated Sign-In with Social and Enterprise Providers
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Letting users sign in with an existing Google, Apple, or corporate identity instead of creating a new password.
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Key points
- •Supports social providers (Google, Facebook, Apple) and enterprise SAML/OIDC providers
- •Cognito handles the provider-specific handshake, then issues normalized JWTs regardless of sign-in method
- •Application code doesn't need separate logic per identity provider — the resulting tokens are uniform
- •Enterprise federation enables SSO for B2B or internal applications using existing corporate identity