We performed a comparison between AWS Directory Service and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS handles everything on the backend requiring minimal legwork from our team. We only require a dedicated database administrator while depending on Amazon for RDS."
"I like the manageability. Activate Connect makes it easier to assign information and to manage the resources in the network."
"Two-step authentication is very useful and important."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"We like the fact that it's got such great redundancy."
"Provides good performance and availability."
"We can provide specific access to people based on what they need from our accounts."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Directory Service is cost-cutting features."
"This solution is less time-consuming. We don't have to hire as many resources to give permissions to a particular user or group for any application."
"The best thing about Microsoft Entra ID is the ease of setup."
"We can have an audit and we can easily audit logs."
"It helps us with maintaining enterprise identities."
"If a company has hundreds of users that already exist in the cloud, and it now wants to enable those same users to be present in third-party applications that their business uses, like Atlassian or GoToMeeting, the provisioning technology can assist in achieving that."
"Azure Active Directory has useful policy assigning and management."
"Very stable and scalable IAM service with good SSO and authentication features."
"My two preferred features are conditional access and privileged identity management."
"Some of the security protocols are difficult to understand."
"Our only complaint is that you cannot integrate your Exchange server. Or, if you are planning to install an Exchange server on your Amazon EC2 instance, then you need to configure Active Directory on EC2 instance. We would like for this limitation to be lifted."
"We had a problem with the schema uploading and setting up the directory when we are migrating our users from on-premises to cloud infrastructure."
"Can be improved by including on-premises access for services through Identity Access Management."
"AWS could improve the number of regions. Azure has passed them. The ned more consistency, as far as the Northeast is concerned."
"To get CloudWatch to monitor your memory and storage, you have to do some configuration within your server, which sometimes results in errors."
"The AWS Directory Service should be easier to integrate."
"The solution lacks certain features."
"The documentation could be better."
"From time to time it takes a little bit of time to replicate, with some of the applications—something like five to 10 minutes. I know that the design is not supposed to enable real-time replication with some of the applications. But, as an administrator, I would like to run a specific change or modification in Azure Active Directory and see it replicated almost immediately."
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
"An area where there is room for improvement is the ease of use of the dashboards."
"My understanding is, in the future, they will be able to bring everything into one single platform and they are not there yet."
"I would like to be able to authenticate Wi-Fi users using the Azure ID"
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Its integration with open-source applications can be improved. I know that they are working on open-source authentication methods for integration with open-source applications, but they can make it more open."
AWS Directory Service is ranked 10th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 190 reviews. AWS Directory Service is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Directory Service writes "Extends AD identity and management capabilities to AWS resources". 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". AWS Directory Service is most compared with Microsoft Entra External ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Okta Workforce Identity and Omada Identity, 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 AWS Directory Service vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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