We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and NetIQ Access Manager 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."Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"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 OTP validation and email validation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database."
"The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The single sign-on feature is excellent."
"It's very easy to integrate with applications."
"There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."
"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."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"The ease and simplicity of integration could be improved when using this solution. When using Okta, scope is a single endpoint with a parameter as a scope. In the Cognito for each scope, there is a separate endpoint."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution."
"The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization."
"Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal."
"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 6th in Access Management with 10 reviews while NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 14th in Access Management with 5 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0. 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 NetIQ Access Manager writes "A mature, powerful product with good integration capabilities". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, Okta Workforce Identity and ForgeRock, whereas NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0 and Symantec Siteminder. See our Amazon Cognito vs. NetIQ Access Manager report.
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