Adding google to IAM's Identity Providers OpenID Connect

Question

This was hard to find so I'll add it here in case anyone needs it.

When adding google sign in as a cognito authentication provider for both Android and iOS I need to use the OpenID rather than Google+, but when adding in google as an OpenID I couldn't find the provider URL in google's documentation

Answer 1

The provider URL is hardcoded accounts.google.com for any credential you create, and add all the clientIDs under Audience.

To add google sign in to Cognito for both iOS and Android:

• Go to IAM -> Identity providers
• Create a provider
• Choose OpenID Connect
• In the provider url write https://accounts.google.com
• In Audience write one of the app's client_id that you can get from the credentials console

Go back to Cognito:

• Under authentication providers go to OpenID
• Select accounts.google.com