Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Cognito launches new user pool feature tiers, Essentials and Plus, in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The Essentials tier offers comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. It supports password-based log-in, multi-factor authentication (email, SMS, TOTP), and log-in with social identity providers, along with recently announced [Managed Login](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-cognito-managed-login) and [passwordless log-in](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-cognito-passwordless-authentication-low-friction-secure-logins) (passkeys, email, SMS) features. Essentials also supports customizing access tokens and disallowing password reuse. The Plus tier is geared toward customers with elevated security needs for their applications by offering threat protection capabilities against suspicious log-ins. Plus includes all Essentials features and additionally supports risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credentials detection, and exporting user authentication event logs to analyze threat signals. Essentials will be the default tier for new users pools created by customers. Customers also have the flexibility to switch between [all available tiers](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/) anytime based on their application needs. For existing user pools, customers can enable the new tiers or continue using their current user pool configurations without making any changes. The Essentials and Plus tiers are available at new [pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/). Essentials and Plus are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, refer to: