CDK: is there a way to activate Cognito email verification?

Yes, you can activate the "Allow Cognito to automatically send messages to verify and confirm" feature using the AWS CDK for your Cognito UserPool.

To enable the email verification in a Cognito UserPool using the AWS CDK in JavaScript, you should configure the autoVerifiedAttributes property and set up the email configuration for the UserPool.

const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
const cognito = require('@aws-cdk/aws-cognito');

class CognitoStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope, id, props) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    new cognito.UserPool(this, 'MyUserPool', {
      // Specify that email addresses are an account identifier and are auto-verified.
      signInAliases: {
        email: true
      },
      autoVerifiedAttributes: [cognito.UserPoolAttribute.EMAIL],

      // Email configuration
      email: {
        from: 'noreply@yourdomain.com', // replace with your "from" address
        replyTo: 'support@yourdomain.com' // replace with your "reply to" address
      },

      // ... (other UserPool configurations if any)
    });
  }
}

const app = new cdk.App();
new CognitoStack(app, 'CognitoStack');

Regards, Andrii

Hi Andrii, Thank you for your answer. I guess your code is using the CDK version 1. I migrate to version 2 because it is said v1 is no longuer maintained :(

Here is my V2 code and I can't find any attribute like autoVerifiedAttributes:

const userPool = new UserPool(stack, "UserPool.Passwordless.Create", {
        removalPolicy: RemovalPolicy.RETAIN,
        userPoolName: `CGC-UserPool-Passwordless-${branchID}`,
        selfSignUpEnabled: true,
        autoVerify: {
            email: false,
        },
        signInAliases: {
            email: true,
        },
        userVerification: {
            emailSubject: "Votre lien de vérification ....",
            emailBody: "Bonjour, ... {##Verify Email##}.",
            emailStyle: VerificationEmailStyle.LINK,
        },
        standardAttributes: {
            email: {
                required: true,
                mutable: false,
            },
            nickname: {
                required: true,
                mutable: false,
            },
        },
    });

    userPool.addDomain("UserPoolDomain.Passwordless.Create", {
        cognitoDomain: {
            domainPrefix: "cgc-signup",
        },
    });