We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and CyberArk Privileged 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."The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"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."
"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."
"It is a robust product."
"It is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is the vault. I am satisfied with the interface and the documentation."
"It has helped us with our adoption with other teams, and it has also helped us to integrate it at the ground level."
"Its' quite stable."
"It's secure and reliable. I especially appreciate that it's locked down and only allows access to authorized components."
"We found the initial setup to be easy."
"I really like the PTA (Privileged Threat Analytics). I find this the best feature."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"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."
"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."
"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"I would like to see better automation in granting access, better tools, more efficient tools, to be able to customize the solution that CyberArk provides."
"I would like easier integrations for creating an online dashboard that executives would look at or are able to run reports from the tool."
"There is room for improvement in the availability of custom connectors on the marketplace for this solution. Additionally, their services for the CICD pipeline and ease of integration could be improved."
"Having a centralized place to manage the solution has been something that I have always wanted, and they are starting to understand that and bring things back together."
"Overall what I would really love to see is the third-party PAS reporter tool pulled more into the overall solution, ideally as its own deployable component service installation package."
"It's a big program. To scale excessively, locally, on an on-prem application, takes a lot of servers."
"If there is an area that has room for improvement, it's probably working with their support and getting people on the phone. That is hard to do with most products in general, but that seems to be the difficult area. The product is fantastic, but sometimes we want somebody on the phone."
"Tech support staff can be more proactive."
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Amazon Cognito is ranked 9th in Access Management with 10 reviews while CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is ranked 1st in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 144 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is rated 8.8. 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 CyberArk Privileged Access Manager writes "Lets you ensure relevant, compliant access in good time and with an audit trail, yet lacks clarity on MITRE ATT&CK". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock and Gluu, whereas CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Microsoft Entra ID, Delinea Secret Server, WALLIX Bastion and One Identity Safeguard. See our Amazon Cognito vs. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager report.
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