Insomnia plugin for signing in via AWS Amplify

Key Features

• Environment configuration GUI to input Amplify credentials.
• Automatic token caching and flexible expiry options.
• Customisable return properties (Access Token, ID Token, User ID, Auth ID).
• Multiple user pool support across environments.
• Two authentication methods: AWS Amplify with USER_SRP_AUTH or Cognito Identity Provider with ADMIN_USER_PASSWORD_AUTH

1. Open Insomnia and go to plugin settings.
2. Add insomnia-plugin-aws-amplify.

Uses client-side authentication flow. No AWS credentials required.

Required fields:

• username
• password
• region (e.g., us-east-1)
• userPoolId (e.g., us-east-1_XXXXXXXXX)
• clientId

Uses server-side AdminInitiateAuth flow. Retrieves AWS credentials from your local AWS CLI configuration.

Required fields:

• username
• password
• region (e.g., us-east-1)
• userPoolId (e.g., us-east-1_XXXXXXXXX)
• clientId
• awsProfile: AWS profile name (e.g., staging) - only shown when "Cognito Identity Provider" is selected

Notes:

• The plugin uses the AWS CLI to retrieve credentials, so you must have:
  1. AWS CLI installed and configured
  2. Valid SSO session (run aws sso login --profile <profile-name>)
• Your AWS profile/role must have permission to call cognito-idp:AdminInitiateAuth: