User Profiles for Recommender Systems.

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To build user profiles for a recommender system, you typically need a database or a user management system that can store and manage user data. This data often includes user preferences, behaviors, and characteristics, which the recommender system then uses to provide personalized content or product recommendations.

For example, you could use Amazon Cognito to manage user profiles. Cognito provides user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile applications. It scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as well as enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

To implement this, we'll create an AWS Cognito User Pool with Pulumi, which will serve as the storage for user accounts and profiles. This example will set up the user pool with some basic configuration.

Here's a Pulumi Python program that sets up an AWS Cognito User Pool:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Create an AWS Cognito User Pool to manage user profiles.
user_pool = aws.cognito.UserPool("recommenderSystemUserPool",
    # The name of the user pool.
    name="RecommenderSystemUserPool",
    # A password policy to ensure strong user passwords.
    password_policy=aws.cognito.UserPoolPasswordPolicyArgs(
        minimum_length=8,
        require_numbers=True,
        require_symbols=True,
        require_lowercase=True,
        require_uppercase=True,
    ),
    # Configuration to allow email addresses to be used as usernames.
    username_attributes=["email"]
)

# Export the ID of the User Pool so it can be used in other parts of our application.
pulumi.export("user_pool_id", user_pool.id)
```

In this program, we start by importing both the `pulumi` and `pulumi_aws` modules.

We create a `UserPool` resource which is part of the `aws.cognito` module, naming it `recommenderSystemUserPool`. This user pool will manage sign-up and sign-in for the users of our recommender system.

The `password_policy` defines the complexity requirements for user passwords in our application - ensuring that only strong passwords can be used. For simplicity, this example requires a minimum length of 8 characters and requires numbers, symbols, lowercase, and uppercase letters in passwords.

The `username_attributes` parameter specifies the attributes that can be used to sign in to the user pool. In this case, we're allowing users to sign in using their email address.

Finally, we export the ID of the user pool as `user_pool_id`. This ID will be used to reference the user pool from other parts of your application, such as when setting up a user pool client for an application to interact with Cognito or defining user pool groups.

Remember, this Python program with Pulumi sets up the infrastructure for user profile storage and management. The logic related to your recommender system, which includes processing and utilizing these user profiles to provide recommendations, would be implemented within your application code and potentially use other services like Amazon Machine Learning or custom algorithms you deploy on AWS services.

For more details on configuring AWS Cognito User Pools with Pulumi and to understand the properties and methods available, you can refer to the [Pulumi AWS Cognito documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/api-docs/cognito/userpool/).