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AWS cognito medium security documentation change

Service: cognito · 2025-10-01 · Security-related medium

File: cognito/latest/developerguide/quotas.md

Summary

Restructured rate limit documentation and added email MFA message rate limits

Security assessment

The added email MFA rate limit (5-20 messages/hour per IP) directly addresses security by preventing MFA code flooding attacks.

Diff

diff --git a/cognito/latest/developerguide/quotas.md b/cognito/latest/developerguide/quotas.md
index 08c3ff96d..ffd3cc5a9 100644
--- a//cognito/latest/developerguide/quotas.md
+++ b//cognito/latest/developerguide/quotas.md
@@ -408,4 +408,3 @@ Operation | Description | Default quota (RPS) | Adjustable
-Requests from source IP | Volume of requests from one IP address to one domain | 300 | No  
-Requests to app client | Volume of requests for one app client ID in one domain | 300 | No  
-Requests to domain | Overall volume of requests for the services of one user pool domain | 500 | No  
-Requests for JSON web key documents | Volume of requests for `jwks.json` in one AWS account in one AWS Region | 50,000 | No  
+Per IP | Volume of requests from one IP address | 300 | No  
+Per app client | Volume of requests for one app client ID | 300 | No  
+Per domain | Overall volume of requests for the services of one user pool domain | 500 | No  
@@ -458,0 +458 @@ Email messages sent daily per AWS account2 | 50 | No | N/A
+Email MFA messages sent to one email address hourly per requester IP address | 5-20 | No | N/A