What does the Cognito Logout endpoint (/logout) actually do?

Question

The [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/logout-endpoint.html) says:

> The /logout endpoint signs the user out

and

> This example clears the existing session ...
```
GET https://mydomain.auth.us-east-1.amazoncognito.com/logout?
client_id=ad398u21ijw3s9w3939&
logout_uri=https://myclient/logout
```

What does this mean? Does the logout endpoint invalidate refresh tokens / id tokens / access tokens for the user sending the request?

I don't think it could because the `client_id` refers only to App Client ID, not an individual user. It doesn't seem that the endpoint would even know what user the request is associated with.

So what does the `/logout` endpoint actually do?

Joel_Ponukumatla · Answer

Log out only invalidates the session.

You can call the global sign out , this signs out users from all devices. It also invalidates all refresh tokens that Amazon Cognito has issued to a user.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito-user-identity-pools/latest/APIReference/API_GlobalSignOut.html

Alternatively : 
If you want to invalidate the refresh token then the /oauth2/revoke endpoint revokes all of the access tokens that the specified refresh token generated. This is a POST hence this would be a custom signout flow since the log out only supports HTTPS GET

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/revocation-endpoint.html

What does the Cognito Logout endpoint (/logout) actually do?

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