AWS Cognito emails land in spam without SPF and DKIM setup

Developers using AWS Cognito discover too late that verification emails land in spam because SPF and DKIM records misconfigured.

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The fact

AWS Cognito uses its own sending domain by default, with no delegation to custom domains.

Manual configuration becomes essential for acceptable delivery rate.

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