Ask HN: How do you migrate off of Cognito?

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5 years ago

I was looking at writing a guide to migrate to another identity provider from AWS Cognito and was surprised to learn that there is no bulk export functionality containing passwords.

I found this doc, which might be helpful for a user by user migration: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/user-pool-lambda-migrate-user.html You could run this and create users in the new IdP.

I found this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/cognito-user-profiles-export-reference-architecture/cognito-user-profiles-export-reference-architecture.pdf which is good for profile data, but explicitly excludes passwords. I suppose you could bulk migrate everyone using this approach and then require everyone to reset their password?

How do people migrate their user data off of AWS Cognito?

Full disclosure, I work for a Cognito competitor (link in my profile) and the doc I'm working on will be published on their site.

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