We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Okta Workforce Identity 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 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."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"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 solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"The solution can scale very well."
"It is dependent on the evolution of your user base. It depends on usage per user, so the more sign-ins there are, the more expensive it becomes, so it works best for smaller companies from a financial perspective."
"The solution so far has been very stable."
"One of the most beneficial features of the solution is the user provisioning and the de-provisioning feature."
"Workforce Identity offers a comprehensive access management solution with multi-factor authentication, total control, and features like app access management, identity governance, and administration tools such as certification and access request management. These are typically found in identity management solutions, but Okta integrates them seamlessly into its user interface."
"I am able to authenticate my users on cloud and SaaS applications such as Workday through Okta workflows."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"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."
"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."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"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."
"It would be pricing, which is a tough one because it goes against Microsoft. A lot of companies say they're a Microsoft partner, and they get all their software for free. Okta is like a luxury product, and it's not the most affordable one. I would say if they could work on pricing, it would help. Other than that, they've done great strides in developing a product that is really good. The companies that do see the value tend to invest in it."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve provisioning it can be made simpler."
"They should focus on improving them to provide top-notch team access management while still offering those typical features."
"The ability or the options in the solution for changing the look and feel are not good enough because in our partner portal, essentially what they have is an ugly admin interface."
"The initial setup can be complex at first."
"We still had to write several internal programs/scripts to complete the user-provisioning process. Okta does not have the ability to provision mailbox accounts for on-premise Exchange or in a hybrid O365 environment. The Group Push function from Okta to AD did not work reliably in our environment."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 6th in Access Management with 9 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Access Management with 57 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.6, while Okta Workforce Identity 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 Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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