Use A Custom Cognito User Pool with AWS AppSync

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Disclaimer: This guide applies to the AWS Template Format Version 2010–09–09. I can’t speak to future versions of the CloudFormation templating system.

Intro

One of the more confusing aspects to figure out for our project was how to change our AppSync configuration so that we could accomplish two things:

• Use a custom Cognito…