How do I access the group for a Cognito User account?

Question

In AWS Cognito, you can add a user to a group (after first creating a group). A user may belong to one or more groups.

With using the JavaScript SDK (https://github

Answer 1

You can now easily get the user groups from the user session:

session.getIdToken().decodePayload();

This contains an array of groups in the cognito:groups key returned