How to require email validation in Cognito through CloudFormation?

Question

I think I tried all properties here:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-cognito-userpool.html

couldn't get this box checked:

My config currently:

    CognitoUserPoolGeneral:       Type: AWS::Cognito::UserPool       Properties:         UserPoolName: general         Policies:           PasswordPolicy:             MinimumLength: 6             RequireLowercase: false             RequireNumbers: false             RequireSymbols: false             RequireUppercase: false         Schema:           - AttributeDataType: String             Name: preferredLocale             DeveloperOnlyAttribute: false             Mutable: true             Required: false         EmailVerificationMessage: "Here's your verification code: {####}. Please provide it inside the application."         EmailVerificationSubject: "subject" 

Answer 1

You can add

  AutoVerifiedAttributes:     - email 

To your Properties key, like so:

  UserPool:     Type: "AWS::Cognito::UserPool"     Properties:       UserPoolName: !Sub ${AuthName}-user-pool       AutoVerifiedAttributes:         - email       Policies:..... 

For an excellent example of a CloudFormation template that creates Cognito resources, see:

https://gist.github.com/singledigit/2c4d7232fa96d9e98a3de89cf6ebe7a5