We performed a comparison between AWS IAM Identity Center and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."
"It's a very intuitive platform. It's easy to create groups and add people."
"The most valuable feature is Identity and Access Management. As an IT administrator, this feature allows me to manage access for users and groups."
"The most valuable feature is the conditional access policies. This gives us the ability to restrict who can access which applications or the portal in specific ways."
"Azure Active Directory features have helped improve our security posture. The remote working has been a massive help during the pandemic."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that is easy to use."
"My two preferred features are conditional access and privileged identity management."
"Single sign-on is the reason we use AD."
"The best thing about Microsoft Entra ID is the ease of setup."
"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."
"I would like to see a better delegation of access. For instance, we want to allow different groups within the company to manage different elements of Azure AD, but I need more granularity in delegating access."
"Customers should be informed that public review features are not intended for production use."
"Some of the features that they offer, e.g., customized emails, are not available with B2C. You are stuck with whatever email template they give you, and it is not the best user experience. For B2C, that is a bit of a negative thing."
"Its area of improvement is more about the synchronization of accounts and the intervals for that. Sometimes, there're customers with other network challenges, and it takes a while for synchronization to happen to the cloud. There is some component of their on-prem that is delaying things getting to the cloud. The turnaround time for these requests is very time-sensitive. I don't mean this as derogatory for this service, but in my experience, that happens a lot."
"It would be good to have more clarity around licensing."
"The conditional access rules are a little limiting. There's greater scope for the variety of rules and conditions you could put in that rules around a more factual authentication for other users. If you have an Azure AD setup, you can then connect to other people's Azure AD, but you don't have a huge amount of control in terms of what you can do. Greater control over guest users and guest access would be better. It's pretty good as it is but that could be improved."
"We have a custom solution now running to tie all those Azure ADs together. We use the B2B functionality for that. Improvements are already on the roadmap for Azure AD in that area. I think they will make it easier to work together between two different tenants in Azure AD, because normally one tenant is a security boundary. For example, company one has a tenant and company two has a tenant, and then you can do B2B collaboration between those, but it is still quite limited. For our use case, it is enough currently. However, if we want to extend the collaboration even further, then we need an easier way to collaborate between two tenants, but I think that is already on the roadmap of Azure AD anyway."
"It would be ideal if the solution moved to a passwordless type of environment. It's the future of authentification. It's also more secure and convenient."
AWS IAM Identity Center is ranked 13th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 1 review while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. AWS IAM Identity Center is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS IAM Identity Center writes "Helps users provide or revoke accesses whenever needed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". AWS IAM Identity Center is most compared with Red Hat Single Sign On, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and PingFederate, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Duo and Okta Workforce Identity.
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