We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and WSO2 Identity Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Ping Identity and others in Access Management."This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift 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."
"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."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."
"The solution gets the job done, and we don't have to do the main configuration."
"It's very easy to implement everything."
"I would rate the solution's stability eight or nine out of ten."
"The single sign-on procedure itself, as well as the ability to connect to external user sources such as Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP servers, are the solution's most valuable features."
"The keystore feature has been most valuable for us."
"Comprehensive ecosystem."
"The product provides easy integration between API manager and IT server components."
"Some of the valuable features of the solution are the easy integration with processes, such as Single Sign-On. Overall WSO2 is straightforward and does not need customization."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"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 MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"The solution could improve its development from a user perspective."
"Sometimes working with the code is difficult because I search for documentation about the code and how to work with the code, which is where I believe they should improve, by providing some documentation on how to work with the code."
"I found the initial setup to be very complex."
"This solution does not have BPM workflows already integrated, we had to integrate the BPM module externally. They do not provide full-featured auditing and certification modules out of the box."
"There needs to be a good support model and easy-to-understand documentation."
"The high availability architecture has to be improved."
"This solution requires extensive knowledge to be used effectively as certain areas of its use are not user friendly."
"The solution seems to be pretty outdated."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 9th in Access Management with 10 reviews while WSO2 Identity Server is ranked 7th in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) with 8 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while WSO2 Identity Server is rated 8.2. 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 WSO2 Identity Server writes "Provides easy integration with other tools". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas WSO2 Identity Server is most compared with Auth0, SAP Identity Management, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM).
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