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AWS cognito: Document managed login step-up parameters

Service: cognito · 2026-10-03 · Documentation high

File: cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-managed-login.md · Type: authn

Summary

Adds a note that managed login supports step-up authentication using acr_values and max_age on authorize and login endpoints.

Security assessment

Documents supported authentication parameters for enforcing stronger or fresher authentication requirements in managed login.

Evidence

+Managed login supports step-up authentication with the `acr_values` and `max_age` parameters on the authorize and login endpoints. For more information, see the [authorize endpoint](./authorization-endpoint.html#authorization-endpoint-step-up) and [login endpoint](./login-endpoint.html#login-endpoint-step-up).

Diff

diff --git a/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-managed-login.md b/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-managed-login.md
index bcc834a..f46a5da 100644
--- a//cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-managed-login.md
+++ b//cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-managed-login.md
@@ -41,0 +42,2 @@ For more information about constructing requests to managed login and hosted UI
+Managed login supports step-up authentication with the `acr_values` and `max_age` parameters on the authorize and login endpoints. For more information, see the [authorize endpoint](./authorization-endpoint.html#authorization-endpoint-step-up) and [login endpoint](./login-endpoint.html#login-endpoint-step-up).
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