What is AWS CognitoEssentialsMAU?

Last updated: April 27, 2025

You pay for Amazon Cognito Essentials based on monthly active users (MAUs) in your user pool configured with pricing tier of Essentials. A user is counted as Essentials MAU if the user is active at least once in a month when the user pool pricing tier is configured as Essentials and was never active when the user pool was configured as Plus. Essentials will be the default tier for new users pools created by customers. Customers have the flexibility to switch their user pools between the Lite, Essentials, or Plus tiers anytime based on their application needs. The first 10,000 MAUs are free each month. For every MAU thereafter, the cost is $0.015 per MAU. This is the billing code that represents that charge.

Essentials offers comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. It includes all capabilities in Lite along with supporting Managed Login and passwordless login options using passkeys, email, or SMS. Essentials also supports customizing access tokens and disallowing password reuse.