cognitoidentityprovider_create_user_pool: Creates a new Amazon Cognito user pool

In paws.security.identity: 'Amazon Web Services' Security, Identity, & Compliance Services

Creates a new Amazon Cognito user pool

Description

Creates a new Amazon Cognito user pool. This operation sets basic and advanced configuration options.

See https://www.paws-r-sdk.com/docs/cognitoidentityprovider_create_user_pool/ for full documentation.

Usage

cognitoidentityprovider_create_user_pool(
  PoolName,
  Policies = NULL,
  DeletionProtection = NULL,
  LambdaConfig = NULL,
  AutoVerifiedAttributes = NULL,
  AliasAttributes = NULL,
  UsernameAttributes = NULL,
  SmsVerificationMessage = NULL,
  EmailVerificationMessage = NULL,
  EmailVerificationSubject = NULL,
  VerificationMessageTemplate = NULL,
  SmsAuthenticationMessage = NULL,
  MfaConfiguration = NULL,
  UserAttributeUpdateSettings = NULL,
  DeviceConfiguration = NULL,
  EmailConfiguration = NULL,
  SmsConfiguration = NULL,
  UserPoolTags = NULL,
  AdminCreateUserConfig = NULL,
  Schema = NULL,
  UserPoolAddOns = NULL,
  UsernameConfiguration = NULL,
  AccountRecoverySetting = NULL,
  UserPoolTier = NULL
)

Arguments

PoolName	[required] A friendly name for your user pool.
Policies	The password policy and sign-in policy in the user pool. The password policy sets options like password complexity requirements and password history. The sign-in policy sets the options available to applications in choice-based authentication.
DeletionProtection	When active, DeletionProtection prevents accidental deletion of your user pool. Before you can delete a user pool that you have protected against deletion, you must deactivate this feature. When you try to delete a protected user pool in a delete_user_pool API request, Amazon Cognito returns an InvalidParameterException error. To delete a protected user pool, send a new delete_user_pool request after you deactivate deletion protection in an update_user_pool API request.
LambdaConfig	A collection of user pool Lambda triggers. Amazon Cognito invokes triggers at several possible stages of authentication operations. Triggers can modify the outcome of the operations that invoked them.
AutoVerifiedAttributes	The attributes that you want your user pool to automatically verify. For more information, see Verifying contact information at sign-up.
AliasAttributes	Attributes supported as an alias for this user pool. For more information about alias attributes, see Customizing sign-in attributes.
UsernameAttributes	Specifies whether a user can use an email address or phone number as a username when they sign up. For more information, see Customizing sign-in attributes.
SmsVerificationMessage	This parameter is no longer used.
EmailVerificationMessage	This parameter is no longer used.
EmailVerificationSubject	This parameter is no longer used.
VerificationMessageTemplate	The template for the verification message that your user pool delivers to users who set an email address or phone number attribute. Set the email message type that corresponds to your DefaultEmailOption selection. For CONFIRM_WITH_LINK, specify an EmailMessageByLink and leave EmailMessage blank. For CONFIRM_WITH_CODE, specify an EmailMessage and leave EmailMessageByLink blank. When you supply both parameters with either choice, Amazon Cognito returns an error.
SmsAuthenticationMessage	The contents of the SMS message that your user pool sends to users in SMS OTP and MFA authentication.
MfaConfiguration	Sets multi-factor authentication (MFA) to be on, off, or optional. When ON, all users must set up MFA before they can sign in. When OPTIONAL, your application must make a client-side determination of whether a user wants to register an MFA device. For user pools with adaptive authentication with threat protection, choose OPTIONAL. When MfaConfiguration is OPTIONAL, managed login doesn't automatically prompt users to set up MFA. Amazon Cognito generates MFA prompts in API responses and in managed login for users who have chosen and configured a preferred MFA factor.
UserAttributeUpdateSettings	The settings for updates to user attributes. These settings include the property AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate, a user-pool setting that tells Amazon Cognito how to handle changes to the value of your users' email address and phone number attributes. For more information, see Verifying updates to email addresses and phone numbers.
DeviceConfiguration	The device-remembering configuration for a user pool. Device remembering or device tracking is a "Remember me on this device" option for user pools that perform authentication with the device key of a trusted device in the back end, instead of a user-provided MFA code. For more information about device authentication, see Working with user devices in your user pool. A null value indicates that you have deactivated device remembering in your user pool. When you provide a value for any DeviceConfiguration field, you activate the Amazon Cognito device-remembering feature. For more information, see Working with devices.
EmailConfiguration	The email configuration of your user pool. The email configuration type sets your preferred sending method, Amazon Web Services Region, and sender for messages from your user pool.
SmsConfiguration	The settings for your Amazon Cognito user pool to send SMS messages with Amazon Simple Notification Service. To send SMS messages with Amazon SNS in the Amazon Web Services Region that you want, the Amazon Cognito user pool uses an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role in your Amazon Web Services account. For more information see SMS message settings.
UserPoolTags	The tag keys and values to assign to the user pool. A tag is a label that you can use to categorize and manage user pools in different ways, such as by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria.
AdminCreateUserConfig	The configuration for administrative creation of users. Includes the template for the invitation message for new users, the duration of temporary passwords, and permitting self-service sign-up.
Schema	An array of attributes for the new user pool. You can add custom attributes and modify the properties of default attributes. The specifications in this parameter set the required attributes in your user pool. For more information, see Working with user attributes.
UserPoolAddOns	Contains settings for activation of threat protection, including the operating mode and additional authentication types. To log user security information but take no action, set to AUDIT. To configure automatic security responses to potentially unwanted traffic to your user pool, set to ENFORCED. For more information, see Adding advanced security to a user pool. To activate this setting, your user pool must be on the Plus tier.
UsernameConfiguration	Sets the case sensitivity option for sign-in usernames. When CaseSensitive is false (case insensitive), users can sign in with any combination of capital and lowercase letters. For example, username, USERNAME, or UserName, or for email, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. For most use cases, set case sensitivity to false as a best practice. When usernames and email addresses are case insensitive, Amazon Cognito treats any variation in case as the same user, and prevents a case variation from being assigned to the same attribute for a different user. When CaseSensitive is true (case sensitive), Amazon Cognito interprets USERNAME and UserName as distinct users. This configuration is immutable after you set it.
AccountRecoverySetting	The available verified method a user can use to recover their password when they call forgot_password. You can use this setting to define a preferred method when a user has more than one method available. With this setting, SMS doesn't qualify for a valid password recovery mechanism if the user also has SMS multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated. Email MFA is also disqualifying for account recovery with email. In the absence of this setting, Amazon Cognito uses the legacy behavior to determine the recovery method where SMS is preferred over email. As a best practice, configure both verified_email and verified_phone_number, with one having a higher priority than the other.
UserPoolTier	The user pool feature plan, or tier. This parameter determines the eligibility of the user pool for features like managed login, access-token customization, and threat protection. Defaults to ESSENTIALS.

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