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• Amazon Cognito manages identity for you
• User Pools are a set of users that are grouped together. This is for authenticating users
• Identity Pools are for authorization. Thus if one app uses an identity pool, only users that go through that app’s authentication process can you the AWS services that the identity pool provides
• In other words, a user pool is for all your users. An identity pool is specific to a service