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."The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"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."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"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."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are SSO, MFA, and beneficial feature sets."
"The product’s most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"The tool helps improve our security and productivity."
"It is flexible and easy to install."
"Okta controls all the users. It has context-based access from the user and type of device. It identifies the risk and can do a step of authentication when that user is trying to access some sensitive application from an unknown device."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"Okta Workforce Identity is easy to use and has a lot of components."
"What I found most valuable in Okta Workforce Identity is that it worked together with VMware Workspace One, so there was this device check at the same time. My company used the trusted device method that enabled you to define that only the trusted devices including the Workspace One agent were able to access the applications directly without an additional authentication step."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"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."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"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 only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"The initial setup can be complex at first."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"The only aspect in which it can be improved is that the interface could be cleaner. I found this even when I was trying to do my certification exam because the certification is hands-on. You find yourself fumbling around a little bit to find simple things. This happens even when you start to get familiar with the product."
"The solution’s policies are difficult to understand due to the policy methods. They use authentication. The solution’s workflow is also difficult and not very active. They need to have proper documentation on it. In the next release, I would like to see the workflows being more digestible."
"The product is expensive compared to other tools."
"The pricing could be improved."
"You can't hide the device when you're checking logs."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 9th in Access Management with 10 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 4th in Access Management with 59 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. 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 WSO2 Identity Server, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and Auth0. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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