We performed a comparison between AWS Directory Service and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that because it's all in the cloud, you don't need to manage the infrastructure."
"The support is very good. I would rate the technical support as a nine out of ten."
"Two-step authentication is very useful and important."
"AWS handles everything on the backend requiring minimal legwork from our team. We only require a dedicated database administrator while depending on Amazon for RDS."
"AWS Directory Service is secure."
"We can provide specific access to people based on what they need from our accounts."
"Provides good performance and availability."
"AWS has eliminated the downtime we waste when our on-premises resources go down."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"It has a wide range of MFA options. I prefer "Okta Verify" out of them all."
"One of the features that I have found to be very valuable is its interoperability and compatibility with all types of resources, whether it's networking, infrastructure, or applications. That is, it is compatible as well as interoperable, as far as the federated authentication is concerned."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"The product requires very little maintenance."
"The solution lacks certain features."
"We had a problem with the schema uploading and setting up the directory when we are migrating our users from on-premises to cloud infrastructure."
"Our only complaint is that you cannot integrate your Exchange server. Or, if you are planning to install an Exchange server on your Amazon EC2 instance, then you need to configure Active Directory on EC2 instance. We would like for this limitation to be lifted."
"I would like to grant partial access to a table contained in a database without having to provide full access to the whole database."
"To get CloudWatch to monitor your memory and storage, you have to do some configuration within your server, which sometimes results in errors."
"The group policy can be improved."
"Some of the security protocols are difficult to understand."
"The AWS Directory Service should be easier to integrate."
"There should be automated aggregation and complete classification processes included in it."
"This user integration with the Okta integration network could be simplified."
"The training is too costly."
"You can't hide the device when you're checking logs."
"They also have single sign-on (SSO). When we bought Okta Workforce Identity a year and a half ago, I was also looking at SSO, but not much documentation was available for SSO. The documentation for SSO should be a little more robust for somebody who is implementing it for the first time."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"The error logging could be improved. Okta doesn't provide enough details when you are troubleshooting an issue. It's often difficult to fix it from our end, so we always need additional support from Okta."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
AWS Directory Service is ranked 6th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 56 reviews. AWS Directory Service is rated 8.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Directory Service writes "Extends AD identity and management capabilities to AWS resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". AWS Directory Service is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra External ID, Google Cloud Identity, Omada Identity and SailPoint IdentityIQ, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0. See our AWS Directory Service vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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