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<p>With the Amazon Cognito user pools API, you can set up user pools and app clients, and authenticate users. To authenticate users from third-party identity providers (IdPs) in this API, you can <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-identity-federation-consolidate-users.html">link IdP users to native user profiles</a>. Learn more about the authentication and authorization of federated users in the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-userpools-server-contract-reference.html">Using the Amazon Cognito user pools API and user pool endpoints</a>.</p> <p>This API reference provides detailed information about API operations and object types in Amazon Cognito. At the bottom of the page for each API operation and object, under <i>See Also</i>, you can learn how to use it in an Amazon Web Services SDK in the language of your choice.</p> <p>Along with resource management operations, the Amazon Cognito user pools API includes classes of operations and authorization models for client-side and server-side user operations. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/user-pools-API-operations.html">Using the Amazon Cognito native and OIDC APIs</a> in the <i>Amazon Cognito Developer Guide</i>.</p> <p>You can also start reading about the <code>CognitoIdentityProvider</code> client in the following SDK guides.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cognito-idp/index.html#cli-aws-cognito-idp">Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/v3/apidocs/items/CognitoIdentityProvider/TCognitoIdentityProviderClient.html">Amazon Web Services SDK for .NET</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="https://sdk.amazonaws.com/cpp/api/LATEST/aws-cpp-sdk-cognito-idp/html/class_aws_1_1_cognito_identity_provider_1_1_cognito_identity_provider_client.html">Amazon Web Services