We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Auth0 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 solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"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."
"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 feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"It is easily connected and easy to put our app in single sign-on."
"The most important thing for me is compliance. Everything that they have developed in Auth0 is already certified by many regulators such as ISO. So, we do not need to take care of that. We have the shared responsibility model to share assets with other products we are using in the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is interface application integration, but we haven't fully used it yet. We'll need it in the future for a few potential clients."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple to integrate, irrespective of your codebase."
"It's a very powerful platform. It has the ability to do the usual stuff, according to modern protocols, like OIDC and OAuth 2. But the real benefit of using the platform comes from its flexibility to enhance it with rules and, now, with what they call authentication pipelines. That is the most significant feature, as it allows you to customize everything regarding the authentication and authorization process."
"I simply use the JWT from the client on the server side to process requests and push updated profile data to a database/queue as needed and end the process without having to persist data in the web server (sessions)."
"It has improved our organization by providing login authentication for a mobile app."
"It has a lot of customization and out-of-the-box features."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"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 MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"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."
"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 secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"The tool's price should be improved."
"When they introduced the Organizations feature they did support different login screens per organization. However, they introduced a dependency between this feature and another called the New Universal Login Experience. The New Experience is a more lightweight login screen, but it is much less customizable. For example, today, we are able to fully customize our login screen and even control the background image according to the time of day. We have code to do that. But we are not able to write code anymore in the New Experience."
"I think they can do a better job in explaining what you're supposed to do next in order to correctly follow an idiomatic approach to using the solution beyond simply passing a JWT token to a server and having the server check then signature to validate the token."
"The product could use a more flexible administration structure"
"This is a costly solution and the price of it should be reduced."
"There are indeed areas where the product could improve. For instance, Okta offers various application configurations, enabling access management, which the tool could consider implementing."
"In the past, there was an issue with the multi-tenant where there wasn't the ability to manage them."
"The price modelling is a bit confusing on the site and can be costly."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 6th in Access Management with 9 reviews while Auth0 is ranked 2nd in Access Management with 14 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.6, while Auth0 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 Auth0 writes "Has good documentation but improvement is needed in MFA and application configurations ". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, Okta Workforce Identity, ForgeRock and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Auth0 is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Frontegg, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock and SAP Customer Data Cloud. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Auth0 report.
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