Amazon Cognito now allows you to increase or decrease your provisioned API rate limits on demand. Cognito has default rate limits for the maximum number of operations per second that you can perform in your user pools in each AWS Region, and you can purchase additional limits on adjustable API categories. With the new on-demand model, you can adjust your rate limits up or down more quickly to match your application’s traffic patterns. Previously, to adjust your Cognito API rate limits, you would request an increase through Service Quotas, where requests are manually reviewed. This meant you ha
The continuous growth of cloud services and the demand for more agile infrastructure management necessitate features like self-service rate limits to improve operational efficiency and responsiveness.
For strategic readers, this represents a continued trend towards greater automation and self-service capabilities in cloud infrastructure, enabling more dynamic and cost-effective resource management for applications.
Cloud users can now quickly adapt their AWS Cognito API rate limits to fluctuating traffic, bypassing previously manual and time-consuming review processes.
- · AWS customers
- · Developers
- · Cloud infrastructure providers
- · AWS Service Quotas manual review teams (reduced workload)
Developers can more rapidly scale their applications' authentication and identity layers to meet demand.
Reduced operational overhead and potential cost savings for applications with variable user traffic patterns.
This could set a precedent for other previously manual quota adjustments across AWS, further accelerating cloud adoption due to improved agility.
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