We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"One of the key benefits of this software is its ease of integration with a wide range of applications, including mobile apps and web applications. This simplifies the process of integration, and it can be seamlessly incorporated with Azure, Kubernetes, and other software systems."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are the pre and post-token generation, and the different Cognito triggers. It has lots of functionality and flexibility."
"The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"Conditional Access is a helpful feature because it allows us to provide better security for our users."
"What I like is that I can go anywhere, at any time, and to any client premise, and I can simply log in to the admin panel and can serve any of my clients."
"I like Azure AD's conditional access policies. Microsoft Entra provides a single pane of glass for managing user access, improving the overall user experience."
"Configuring the domain and setting it up in the Azure portal is just three clicks to be honest."
"It is pretty good in terms of stability."
"The best feature is the single sign-on provision for the various type of users."
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"It has given us the ability to be able to establish single sign-on identities in which we can establish credentials no matter where we are, whether it is on-premises or in the cloud, in a hybrid cloud, or in an additional connection from another cloud where we share equipment or host."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"In a future release, we would like to have different methods to validate the characteristic of a user. For example, we would like to use biometric data to analyze the behavior of users."
"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"Cognito triggers can improve by providing more direct use cases rather than giving a white paper. A white paper is not at all interesting, it has too many details. It would be a benefit to provide a smaller document that is summarized. The smaller version would bring microdata, macro data is not helpful."
"Microsoft Entra ID should improve workload identities. It should set conditional access."
"Sometimes, the notifications and alerts are not delivered properly, and we end up missing them. Also, the overall graphical user interface needs to be improved."
"Better deployment management and visibility functionality would be helpful."
"The technical support could improve by having a faster response time."
"If Microsoft can give us a way to see where this product is running, from a backend perspective, then it would be great."
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
"If somebody is using an IdP or an identity solution other than Active Directory, that's where you have to start jumping through some hoops... I don't think the solution is quite as third-party-centric as Okta or Auth0."
"Though the installation was seamless, it took longer than expected to be completed."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 9th in Access Management with 10 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Cognito writes "Good integration with AWS services but not feasible for B2C because MFAs are nonexistent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity and WSO2 Identity Server, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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