We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Microsoft Entra ID 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 federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."
"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 solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"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 most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The most valuable feature is the factor identification. I find that it is natural integration, and it is just a natural step. I do not need to do anything else."
"The scalability capabilities are quite high."
"The tool's most valuable feature is conditional access."
"The interface is well laid out and it is easy to navigate."
"The valuable features I use daily are enterprise application, conditional access, identity governance, password monitoring, and a password reset."
"A couple of features are valuable, but the one that comes across the most to me is multi-factor authentication."
"It can be used to grant access at a granular level. It provides secure access and many ways to offer security to your user resources. It provides a good level of security for any access on Azure. It gives you options like multi-factor authentication where apart from your password, you can use other factors for authentication, such as a code is sent to your phone or the authenticator app that you can use login."
"Azure Active Directory's single sign-on feature has been helpful because users don't need to authenticate again and again each time they access it. Users only need to sign in the first time, and Azure handles everything. We haven't experienced any errors or security-related issues in the past four years. Many people use our protection servers from outside, requiring multi-factor authentication. Each authentication is logged precisely."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"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."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"The ability to manage and authenticate against on-premises solutions would be beneficial."
"The integration between the Azure active directory and the traditional active directory could be improved upon."
"The role-based access control can be improved. Normally, the role-based access control has different privileges. Each role, such as administrator or user, has different privileges, and the setup rules for them should be defined automatically rather than doing it manually."
"A nice feature that is not currently present, would be if they had some visualization tools."
"If Microsoft can give us a way to see where this product is running, from a backend perspective, then it would be great."
"The product needs to improve its support."
"The ease of use regarding finding audit information for users could also be improved."
"Many of the features are outdated, so the UI and UX could be improved."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 5th in Access Management with 8 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. 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 Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Cloudflare Access, Okta Workforce Identity, ForgeRock and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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