Node.js and AWS Cognito Part #1
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User management is part of nearly every application and it is not easy to do it in a proper secure way. One of the possibilities is to use an existing solution such as AWS Cognito.
Nearly every project I worked on in the past has this part done inhouse. In these cases it is not unusual to see plain text passwords stored in the database. Or passwords hashed with MD5 hash which is deprecated. And even if everything was done correctly, there are still many other things that can pop up.