What is AWS CognitoPlusMAU?

Last updated: April 27, 2025

You pay for Amazon Cognito Plus based on monthly active users (MAUs) in your user pool configured with pricing tier of Plus. A user is counted as Plus MAU if the user is active at least once in a month when the user pool pricing tier is configured as Plus. Amazon Cognito Plus costs $0.02 per MAU

Plus is geared toward customers with elevated security needs for their applications by offering threat protection capabilities against suspicious log-ins. It includes all Essentials tier features and additionally supports risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credentials detection, and exporting user authentication event logs to analyze threat signals.