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AWS cognito documentation change

Service: cognito · 2025-05-31 · Documentation low

File: cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-identity-federation.md

Summary

Added documentation about automatic user group creation for IdP users

Security assessment

Explains group membership behavior for federated users but doesn't address security vulnerabilities or introduce security features

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diff --git a/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-identity-federation.md b/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-identity-federation.md
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@@ -52,0 +53,2 @@ Example: `[email protected]`
+  * Amazon Cognito creates a [user group](./cognito-user-pools-user-groups.html) for each OIDC, SAMl, and social IdP that you add to your user pool. The name of the group is in the format `[user pool ID]_[IdP name]`, for example `us-east-1_EXAMPLE_MYSSO` or `us-east-1_EXAMPLE_Google`. Each unique automatically-generated IdP user profile is automatically added to this group. [Linked users](./cognito-user-pools-identity-federation-consolidate-users.html) aren't automatically added to this group, but you can add their profiles to the group in a separate process.
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