Amazon Cognito vs Exostar Secure Access Manager comparison

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We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Exostar Secure Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."
  • "We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs."
  • "The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."
  • "The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."
  • "The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."
  • "The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it."
  • "The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."
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    Top Answer:They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication.
    Top Answer:The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools. The scalability, usage, and computing are affordable. I recommend it from a cost point of view.
    Top Answer:Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users. We have to select multiple parameters that require research. This process could be simplified.
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    5th
    out of 37 in Access Management
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    3,088
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    2,498
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    8
    Average Words per Review
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    Also Known As
    Exostar SAM, Exostar Pirean
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    Overview

    Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data in the AWS Cloud, such as app preferences or game state, without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. This means you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.

    We provide robust authentication and authorisation services across web and mobile. Our Access: One platform protects high value data, equity and IP across critical industries. We partner with some of the world’s largest organisations to protect their services globally.

    Delivered through our private cloud identity platform, we enable our customers to quickly realise identity services that:

    -Provide a central point of control for managing identities and entitlements
    -Provide flexible access management, supporting single sign-on and strong user
    authentication
    -Deliver an agile and robust IAM API for extending the reach of your identity infrastructure
    -We are recognised for our innovation, our versatility and our focus on the end user.

    Speak to us today. Together we can transform your identity and access management vision into opportunity and advantage.

    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    Lilly, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Veeva, Cognizant, Pfizer
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Pharma/Biotech Company12%
    Company Size
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise62%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Amazon Cognito is ranked 5th in Access Management with 8 reviews while Exostar Secure Access Manager is ranked 25th in Single Sign-On (SSO). Amazon Cognito is rated 7.6, while Exostar Secure Access Manager is rated 0.0. 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, Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, Okta Workforce Identity and ForgeRock, whereas Exostar Secure Access Manager is most compared with PingFederate.

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