title: AWS Cognito as Django authentication back-end for web site
body: <p>My reading of Cognito is that it can be used in place of a local Django admin database to authenticate users of a website.  However I am not finding any soup-to-nuts examples of a basic "Hello, World" app with a login screen that goes through Cognito.  I would very much appreciate it if someone could post an article that shows, step-by-step, how to create a Hello World Django app and a Cognito user pool, and then how to replace the default authentication in Django with a call to AWS Cognito.   </p>
  
  <p>In particular I need to know how to gather the information from the Cognito admin site that is needed to set up a call to Cognito API to authenticate a user.</p>
  
  <p>There are two cases to consider: App user login to App, and Admin login to django Admin URL of site.  I assume that I would want to use Cognito for both cases, otherwise I am leaving a potential hole where the Admin URL is using a weaker login technology.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Current answers on AWS forums and StackExchange either say:</strong> </p>
  
  <p>(1) It is a waste of time to use Cognito for authenticating a website, it is only for access to AWS resources </p>
  
  <p>(2) It is not a waste of time.   I am about to give up.  I have gone as far as creating a sample Cognito user pool and user groups, and of scouring the web for proper examples of this use case.  (None found, or I wouldn't be writing.)</p>
  
  <p>(3) <a href="https://github.com/capless/warrant" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/capless/warrant</a>, <a href="https://github.com/metametricsinc/django-warrant" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/metametricsinc/django-warrant</a> are two possible solution from the aws forums. </p>