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Hi, no it is not mandatory to use Cognito, just recommended by AWS!
There are alternatives such as Auth0 which could be used instead – in fact at ACG we actually used Auth0, only because when our website was first built, Cognito was not as feature rich as it is now.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers_oidc.html