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i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.

You should really stay away from any "high level" AWS product, as there is almost always something much better and more flexible.

Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.

But anything else that isn't low-to-mid-level (looking at you Beanstalk), use something better.

Clerk, WorkOS, etc.

Cognito isn’t a high level product not anymore than any of those you’ve mentioned it’s a CIAM solution.

It's a Clerk/Auth0/WorkOS alternative.

If you implemented it yourself, you would do it on top of those.