Astro Hacker News - Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication

conroydave |next [-]

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

cmiles8 |next |previous [-]

This has been an obvious feature request for many years, but glad to see AWS investing in what started to feel like a service that was mostly abandoned for investment.

jeffwask |root |parent [-]

I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.

ecshafer |next |previous [-]

Cognito just supported multi-region? For identity this seems like a very high priority issue. I was at a company 10 years ago that we didn't use Cognito to build, and build our own AWS based identity because Cognito didn't have this (and just seemed pretty half-baked).

arpinum |root |parent [-]

They wanted to rebase onto a different database first to make multi-region easier, but that work took many years.

jwnin |next |previous [-]

This prevented us from failing over during last October's outage (unless we wanted to reset everyone's password). Glad to see AWS focusing in on resiliency.

mooreds |next |previous [-]

I work for a Cognito competitor, but I am glad to see them investing in improving the lives of folks using this native AWS service.

It felt like Cognito was abandoned for a while.

grimleech |root |parent [-]

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UltraSane |next |previous [-]

This should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.

semiquaver |root |parent [-]

I think cognito was internally low-staff/KTLO for a while and that changed recently.

mooreds |root |parent [-]

What does KLTO mean?

Insanity |root |parent |next [-]

To add to the other posters, keep-the-lights-on usually means a product has no active feature development. It’s just supported with on-call and maybe some bug fixes depending on capacity.

No clue if Cognito actually was KTLO though.

christophercork |root |parent |next |previous [-]

"Keep Lights To On." It's the post-it on the light switch wired to the Cognito server.

xyzzy_plugh |root |parent |previous [-]

Probably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On

crises-luff-6b |previous [-]

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