AWS CLI Command Reference

[ aws . cognito-idp ]

update-user-pool

Description

Updates the specified user pool with the specified attributes. You can get a list of the current user pool settings using DescribeUserPool . If you don’t provide a value for an attribute, it will be set to the default value.

Note

This action might generate an SMS text message. Starting June 1, 2021, US telecom carriers require you to register an origination phone number before you can send SMS messages to US phone numbers. If you use SMS text messages in Amazon Cognito, you must register a phone number with Amazon Pinpoint . Amazon Cognito uses the registered number automatically. Otherwise, Amazon Cognito users who must receive SMS messages might not be able to sign up, activate their accounts, or sign in.

If you have never used SMS text messages with Amazon Cognito or any other Amazon Web Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service might place your account in the SMS sandbox. In * sandbox mode * , you can send messages only to verified phone numbers. After you test your app while in the sandbox environment, you can move out of the sandbox and into production. For more information, see SMS message settings for Amazon Cognito user pools in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  update-user-pool
--user-pool-id <value>
[--policies <value>]
[--deletion-protection <value>]
[--lambda-config <value>]
[--auto-verified-attributes <value>]
[--sms-verification-message <value>]
[--email-verification-message <value>]
[--email-verification-subject <value>]
[--verification-message-template <value>]
[--sms-authentication-message <value>]
[--user-attribute-update-settings <value>]
[--mfa-configuration <value>]
[--device-configuration <value>]
[--email-configuration <value>]
[--sms-configuration <value>]
[--user-pool-tags <value>]
[--admin-create-user-config <value>]
[--user-pool-add-ons <value>]
[--account-recovery-setting <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]

Options

--user-pool-id (string)

The user pool ID for the user pool you want to update.

--policies (structure)

A container with the policies you want to update in a user pool.

PasswordPolicy -> (structure)

The password policy.

MinimumLength -> (integer)

The minimum length of the password in the policy that you have set. This value can’t be less than 6.

RequireUppercase -> (boolean)

In the password policy that you have set, refers to whether you have required users to use at least one uppercase letter in their password.

RequireLowercase -> (boolean)

In the password policy that you have set, refers to whether you have required users to use at least one lowercase letter in their password.

RequireNumbers -> (boolean)

In the password policy that you have set, refers to whether you have required users to use at least one number in their password.

RequireSymbols -> (boolean)

In the password policy that you have set, refers to whether you have required users to use at least one symbol in their password.

TemporaryPasswordValidityDays -> (integer)

The number of days a temporary password is valid in the password policy. If the user doesn’t sign in during this time, an administrator must reset their password.

Note

When you set TemporaryPasswordValidityDays for a user pool, you can no longer set a value for the legacy UnusedAccountValidityDays parameter in that user pool.

Shorthand Syntax:

PasswordPolicy={MinimumLength=integer,RequireUppercase=boolean,RequireLowercase=boolean,RequireNumbers=boolean,RequireSymbols=boolean,TemporaryPasswordValidityDays=integer}

JSON Syntax:

{
  "PasswordPolicy": {
    "MinimumLength": integer,
    "RequireUppercase": true|false,
    "RequireLowercase": true|false,
    "RequireNumbers": true|false,
    "RequireSymbols": true|false,
    "TemporaryPasswordValidityDays": integer
  }
}

--deletion-protection (string)

When active, DeletionProtection prevents accidental deletion of your user pool. Before you can delete a user pool that you have protected against deletion, you must deactivate this feature.

When you try to delete a protected user pool in a DeleteUserPool API request, Amazon Cognito returns an InvalidParameterException error. To delete a protected user pool, send a new DeleteUserPool request after you deactivate deletion protection in an UpdateUserPool API request.

Possible values:

  • ACTIVE

  • INACTIVE

--lambda-config (structure)

The Lambda configuration information from the request to update the user pool.

PreSignUp -> (string)

A pre-registration Lambda trigger.

CustomMessage -> (string)

A custom Message Lambda trigger.

PostConfirmation -> (string)

A post-confirmation Lambda trigger.

PreAuthentication -> (string)

A pre-authentication Lambda trigger.

PostAuthentication -> (string)

A post-authentication Lambda trigger.

DefineAuthChallenge -> (string)

Defines the authentication challenge.

CreateAuthChallenge -> (string)

Creates an authentication challenge.

VerifyAuthChallengeResponse -> (string)

Verifies the authentication challenge response.

PreTokenGeneration -> (string)

A Lambda trigger that is invoked before token generation.

UserMigration -> (string)

The user migration Lambda config type.

CustomSMSSender -> (structure)

A custom SMS sender Lambda trigger.

LambdaVersion -> (string)

Signature of the “request” attribute in the “event” information that Amazon Cognito passes to your custom SMS Lambda function. The only supported value is V1_0 .

LambdaArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Lambda function that Amazon Cognito activates to send SMS notifications to users.

CustomEmailSender -> (structure)

A custom email sender Lambda trigger.

LambdaVersion -> (string)

Signature of the “request” attribute in the “event” information Amazon Cognito passes to your custom email Lambda function. The only supported value is V1_0 .

LambdaArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Lambda function that Amazon Cognito activates to send email notifications to users.

KMSKeyID -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an KMS key . Amazon Cognito uses the key to encrypt codes and temporary passwords sent to CustomEmailSender and CustomSMSSender .

Shorthand Syntax:

PreSignUp=string,CustomMessage=string,PostConfirmation=string,PreAuthentication=string,PostAuthentication=string,DefineAuthChallenge=string,CreateAuthChallenge=string,VerifyAuthChallengeResponse=string,PreTokenGeneration=string,UserMigration=string,CustomSMSSender={LambdaVersion=string,LambdaArn=string},CustomEmailSender={LambdaVersion=string,LambdaArn=string},KMSKeyID=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "PreSignUp": "string",
  "CustomMessage": "string",
  "PostConfirmation": "string",
  "PreAuthentication": "string",
  "PostAuthentication": "string",
  "DefineAuthChallenge": "string",
  "CreateAuthChallenge": "string",
  "VerifyAuthChallengeResponse": "string",
  "PreTokenGeneration": "string",
  "UserMigration": "string",
  "CustomSMSSender": {
    "LambdaVersion": "V1_0",
    "LambdaArn": "string"
  },
  "CustomEmailSender": {
    "LambdaVersion": "V1_0",
    "LambdaArn": "string"
  },
  "KMSKeyID": "string"
}

--auto-verified-attributes (list)

The attributes that are automatically verified when Amazon Cognito requests to update user pools.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

Where valid values are:
  phone_number
  email

--sms-verification-message (string)

This parameter is no longer used. See VerificationMessageTemplateType .

--email-verification-message (string)

This parameter is no longer used. See VerificationMessageTemplateType .

--email-verification-subject (string)

This parameter is no longer used. See VerificationMessageTemplateType .

--verification-message-template (structure)

The template for verification messages.

SmsMessage -> (string)

The template for SMS messages that Amazon Cognito sends to your users.

EmailMessage -> (string)

The template for email messages that Amazon Cognito sends to your users. You can set an EmailMessage template only if the value of EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER . When your EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER , your user pool sends email messages with your own Amazon SES configuration.

EmailSubject -> (string)

The subject line for the email message template. You can set an EmailSubject template only if the value of EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER . When your EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER , your user pool sends email messages with your own Amazon SES configuration.

EmailMessageByLink -> (string)

The email message template for sending a confirmation link to the user. You can set an EmailMessageByLink template only if the value of EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER . When your EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER , your user pool sends email messages with your own Amazon SES configuration.

EmailSubjectByLink -> (string)

The subject line for the email message template for sending a confirmation link to the user. You can set an EmailSubjectByLink template only if the value of EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER . When your EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER , your user pool sends email messages with your own Amazon SES configuration.

DefaultEmailOption -> (string)

The default email option.

Shorthand Syntax:

SmsMessage=string,EmailMessage=string,EmailSubject=string,EmailMessageByLink=string,EmailSubjectByLink=string,DefaultEmailOption=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "SmsMessage": "string",
  "EmailMessage": "string",
  "EmailSubject": "string",
  "EmailMessageByLink": "string",
  "EmailSubjectByLink": "string",
  "DefaultEmailOption": "CONFIRM_WITH_LINK"|"CONFIRM_WITH_CODE"
}

--sms-authentication-message (string)

The contents of the SMS authentication message.

--user-attribute-update-settings (structure)

The settings for updates to user attributes. These settings include the property AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate , a user-pool setting that tells Amazon Cognito how to handle changes to the value of your users’ email address and phone number attributes. For more information, see Verifying updates to email addresses and phone numbers .

AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate -> (list)

Requires that your user verifies their email address, phone number, or both before Amazon Cognito updates the value of that attribute. When you update a user attribute that has this option activated, Amazon Cognito sends a verification message to the new phone number or email address. Amazon Cognito doesn’t change the value of the attribute until your user responds to the verification message and confirms the new value.

You can verify an updated email address or phone number with a VerifyUserAttribute API request. You can also call the UpdateUserAttributes or AdminUpdateUserAttributes API and set email_verified or phone_number_verified to true.

When AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate is false, your user pool doesn’t require that your users verify attribute changes before Amazon Cognito updates them. In a user pool where AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate is false, API operations that change attribute values can immediately update a user’s email or phone_number attribute.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate=string,string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "AttributesRequireVerificationBeforeUpdate": ["phone_number"|"email", ...]
}

--mfa-configuration (string)

Possible values include:

  • OFF - MFA tokens aren’t required and can’t be specified during user registration.

  • ON - MFA tokens are required for all user registrations. You can only specify ON when you’re initially creating a user pool. You can use the SetUserPoolMfaConfig API operation to turn MFA “ON” for existing user pools.

  • OPTIONAL - Users have the option when registering to create an MFA token.

Possible values:

  • OFF

  • ON

  • OPTIONAL

--device-configuration (structure)

The device-remembering configuration for a user pool. A null value indicates that you have deactivated device remembering in your user pool.

Note

When you provide a value for any DeviceConfiguration field, you activate the Amazon Cognito device-remembering feature.

ChallengeRequiredOnNewDevice -> (boolean)

When true, a remembered device can sign in with device authentication instead of SMS and time-based one-time password (TOTP) factors for multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Note

Whether or not ChallengeRequiredOnNewDevice is true, users who sign in with devices that have not been confirmed or remembered must still provide a second factor in a user pool that requires MFA.

DeviceOnlyRememberedOnUserPrompt -> (boolean)

When true, Amazon Cognito doesn’t automatically remember a user’s device when your app sends a ConfirmDevice API request. In your app, create a prompt for your user to choose whether they want to remember their device. Return the user’s choice in an UpdateDeviceStatus API request.

When DeviceOnlyRememberedOnUserPrompt is false , Amazon Cognito immediately remembers devices that you register in a ConfirmDevice API request.

Shorthand Syntax:

ChallengeRequiredOnNewDevice=boolean,DeviceOnlyRememberedOnUserPrompt=boolean

JSON Syntax:

{
  "ChallengeRequiredOnNewDevice": true|false,
  "DeviceOnlyRememberedOnUserPrompt": true|false
}

--email-configuration (structure)

The email configuration of your user pool. The email configuration type sets your preferred sending method, Amazon Web Services Region, and sender for email invitation and verification messages from your user pool.

SourceArn -> (string)

The ARN of a verified email address in Amazon SES. Amazon Cognito uses this email address in one of the following ways, depending on the value that you specify for the EmailSendingAccount parameter:

  • If you specify COGNITO_DEFAULT , Amazon Cognito uses this address as the custom FROM address when it emails your users using its built-in email account.

  • If you specify DEVELOPER , Amazon Cognito emails your users with this address by calling Amazon SES on your behalf.

The Region value of the SourceArn parameter must indicate a supported Amazon Web Services Region of your user pool. Typically, the Region in the SourceArn and the user pool Region are the same. For more information, see Amazon SES email configuration regions in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide .

ReplyToEmailAddress -> (string)

The destination to which the receiver of the email should reply.

EmailSendingAccount -> (string)

Specifies whether Amazon Cognito uses its built-in functionality to send your users email messages, or uses your Amazon Simple Email Service email configuration. Specify one of the following values:

COGNITO_DEFAULT

When Amazon Cognito emails your users, it uses its built-in email functionality. When you use the default option, Amazon Cognito allows only a limited number of emails each day for your user pool. For typical production environments, the default email limit is less than the required delivery volume. To achieve a higher delivery volume, specify DEVELOPER to use your Amazon SES email configuration.

To look up the email delivery limit for the default option, see Limits in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide .

The default FROM address is no-reply@verificationemail.com . To customize the FROM address, provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an Amazon SES verified email address for the SourceArn parameter.

DEVELOPER

When Amazon Cognito emails your users, it uses your Amazon SES configuration. Amazon Cognito calls Amazon SES on your behalf to send email from your verified email address. When you use this option, the email delivery limits are the same limits that apply to your Amazon SES verified email address in your Amazon Web Services account.

If you use this option, provide the ARN of an Amazon SES verified email address for the SourceArn parameter.

Before Amazon Cognito can email your users, it requires additional permissions to call Amazon SES on your behalf. When you update your user pool with this option, Amazon Cognito creates a service-linked role , which is a type of role in your Amazon Web Services account. This role contains the permissions that allow you to access Amazon SES and send email messages from your email address. For more information about the service-linked role that Amazon Cognito creates, see Using Service-Linked Roles for Amazon Cognito in the Amazon Cognito Developer Guide .

From -> (string)

Either the sender’s email address or the sender’s name with their email address. For example, testuser@example.com or Test User <testuser@example.com> . This address appears before the body of the email.

ConfigurationSet -> (string)

The set of configuration rules that can be applied to emails sent using Amazon Simple Email Service. A configuration set is applied to an email by including a reference to the configuration set in the headers of the email. Once applied, all of the rules in that configuration set are applied to the email. Configuration sets can be used to apply the following types of rules to emails:

Event publishing

Amazon Simple Email Service can track the number of send, delivery, open, click, bounce, and complaint events for each email sent. Use event publishing to send information about these events to other Amazon Web Services services such as and Amazon CloudWatch

IP pool management

When leasing dedicated IP addresses with Amazon Simple Email Service, you can create groups of IP addresses, called dedicated IP pools. You can then associate the dedicated IP pools with configuration sets.

Shorthand Syntax:

SourceArn=string,ReplyToEmailAddress=string,EmailSendingAccount=string,From=string,ConfigurationSet=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "SourceArn": "string",
  "ReplyToEmailAddress": "string",
  "EmailSendingAccount": "COGNITO_DEFAULT"|"DEVELOPER",
  "From": "string",
  "ConfigurationSet": "string"
}

--sms-configuration (structure)

The SMS configuration with the settings that your Amazon Cognito user pool must use to send an SMS message from your Amazon Web Services account through Amazon Simple Notification Service. To send SMS messages with Amazon SNS in the Amazon Web Services Region that you want, the Amazon Cognito user pool uses an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role in your Amazon Web Services account.

SnsCallerArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon SNS caller. This is the ARN of the IAM role in your Amazon Web Services account that Amazon Cognito will use to send SMS messages. SMS messages are subject to a spending limit .

ExternalId -> (string)

The external ID provides additional security for your IAM role. You can use an ExternalId with the IAM role that you use with Amazon SNS to send SMS messages for your user pool. If you provide an ExternalId , your Amazon Cognito user pool includes it in the request to assume your IAM role. You can configure the role trust policy to require that Amazon Cognito, and any principal, provide the ExternalID . If you use the Amazon Cognito Management Console to create a role for SMS multi-factor authentication (MFA), Amazon Cognito creates a role with the required permissions and a trust policy that demonstrates use of the ExternalId .

For more information about the ExternalId of a role, see How to use an external ID when granting access to your Amazon Web Services resources to a third party

SnsRegion -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services Region to use with Amazon SNS integration. You can choose the same Region as your user pool, or a supported Legacy Amazon SNS alternate Region .

Amazon Cognito resources in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Amazon Web Services Region must use your Amazon SNS configuration in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. For more information, see SMS message settings for Amazon Cognito user pools .

Shorthand Syntax:

SnsCallerArn=string,ExternalId=string,SnsRegion=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "SnsCallerArn": "string",
  "ExternalId": "string",
  "SnsRegion": "string"
}

--user-pool-tags (map)

The tag keys and values to assign to the user pool. A tag is a label that you can use to categorize and manage user pools in different ways, such as by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria.

key -> (string)

value -> (string)

Shorthand Syntax:

KeyName1=string,KeyName2=string

JSON Syntax:

{"string": "string"
  ...}

--admin-create-user-config (structure)

The configuration for AdminCreateUser requests.

AllowAdminCreateUserOnly -> (boolean)

Set to True if only the administrator is allowed to create user profiles. Set to False if users can sign themselves up via an app.

UnusedAccountValidityDays -> (integer)

The user account expiration limit, in days, after which a new account that hasn’t signed in is no longer usable. To reset the account after that time limit, you must call AdminCreateUser again, specifying "RESEND" for the MessageAction parameter. The default value for this parameter is 7.

Note

If you set a value for TemporaryPasswordValidityDays in PasswordPolicy , that value will be used, and UnusedAccountValidityDays will be no longer be an available parameter for that user pool.

InviteMessageTemplate -> (structure)

The message template to be used for the welcome message to new users.

See also Customizing User Invitation Messages .

SMSMessage -> (string)

The message template for SMS messages.

EmailMessage -> (string)

The message template for email messages. EmailMessage is allowed only if EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER.

EmailSubject -> (string)

The subject line for email messages. EmailSubject is allowed only if EmailSendingAccount is DEVELOPER.

Shorthand Syntax:

AllowAdminCreateUserOnly=boolean,UnusedAccountValidityDays=integer,InviteMessageTemplate={SMSMessage=string,EmailMessage=string,EmailSubject=string}

JSON Syntax:

{
  "AllowAdminCreateUserOnly": true|false,
  "UnusedAccountValidityDays": integer,
  "InviteMessageTemplate": {
    "SMSMessage": "string",
    "EmailMessage": "string",
    "EmailSubject": "string"
  }
}

--user-pool-add-ons (structure)

Enables advanced security risk detection. Set the key AdvancedSecurityMode to the value “AUDIT”.

AdvancedSecurityMode -> (string)

The advanced security mode.

Shorthand Syntax:

AdvancedSecurityMode=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "AdvancedSecurityMode": "OFF"|"AUDIT"|"ENFORCED"
}

--account-recovery-setting (structure)

The available verified method a user can use to recover their password when they call ForgotPassword . You can use this setting to define a preferred method when a user has more than one method available. With this setting, SMS doesn’t qualify for a valid password recovery mechanism if the user also has SMS multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated. In the absence of this setting, Amazon Cognito uses the legacy behavior to determine the recovery method where SMS is preferred through email.

RecoveryMechanisms -> (list)

The list of RecoveryOptionTypes .

(structure)

A map containing a priority as a key, and recovery method name as a value.

Priority -> (integer)

A positive integer specifying priority of a method with 1 being the highest priority.

Name -> (string)

The recovery method for a user.

Shorthand Syntax:

RecoveryMechanisms=[{Priority=integer,Name=string},{Priority=integer,Name=string}]

JSON Syntax:

{
  "RecoveryMechanisms": [
    {
      "Priority": integer,
      "Name": "verified_email"|"verified_phone_number"|"admin_only"
    }
    ...
  ]
}

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json

  • text

  • table

  • yaml

  • yaml-stream

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on

  • off

  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

  • base64

  • raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To update a user pool

This example adds tags to a user pool.

Command:

aws cognito-idp update-user-pool --user-pool-id us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa --user-pool-tags Team=Blue,Area=West

Output

None

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