We performed a comparison between AWS Directory Service and Microsoft Entra ID 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 support is very good. I would rate the technical support as a nine out of ten."
"AWS has eliminated the downtime we waste when our on-premises resources go down."
"We like the fact that it's got such great redundancy."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that because it's all in the cloud, you don't need to manage the infrastructure."
"Provides good performance and availability."
"Two-step authentication is very useful and important."
"The solution has come a long way. Now, with the Azure AD B2C offering integrated as well, we've got a full IAM-type solution for our customer-facing identity management. In addition, when it comes to user journeys we now can hook in custom flows for different credential checking and authorizations for specific conditional access."
"Azure Active Directory provides us with identity-based authentication, which secures access at the user level and also integrates with conditional access policies and multi-factor authentication helping to increase the identity security for that person. So, the hacking and leaking of passwords is a secondary problem because you will not authenticate a person with one factor. There is a second factor of authentication available to increase the security premise for your company."
"It's definitely both stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to delegate roles to each individual resource, which is great."
"It helps us with maintaining enterprise identities."
"We have not had any formal issues with scalability."
"Many of its features are valuable, including: facilitating application authentication, privileged access management, processes for attestation, and access reviews."
"Being able to easily authenticate yourself on the MSA app is valuable. It is easy to use. Rather than receiving a code in an SMS, you can just verify that it is you. You don't have to punch in any password or any six-digit code. That's the feature that I like the most."
"I would like to grant partial access to a table contained in a database without having to provide full access to the whole database."
"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."
"Some of the security protocols are difficult to understand."
"The group policy can be improved."
"To get CloudWatch to monitor your memory and storage, you have to do some configuration within your server, which sometimes results in errors."
"AWS Directory Service needs to improve processing."
"The AWS Directory Service should be easier to integrate."
"The solution lacks certain features."
"I think the solution can improve by making the consumption of that data easier for our customers."
"I would like to see Microsoft communicate how they intend to manage legacy applications. Right now, you still have to deploy a hosted domain server (which comes at an extra cost) if you have a legacy application that cannot sync properly with the enterprise applications and the modern applications."
"Some systems do not integrate very well with Azure AD. We thought of going for Okta, but later on we were able to achieve it, but not the way we wanted. It was not as easy as we thought it would be. The integration was not very seamless."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The support is a bit slow."
"Definitely, the price could be lower. When we moved from AWS to Azure, we started paying more."
"The pricing is okay, however, it could always be better in the future."
"The security policy of Azure Active Directory should be based on a matrix so that we can easily visualize which users have access to what."
AWS Directory Service is ranked 9th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 190 reviews. AWS Directory Service is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Entra ID 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 Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". AWS Directory Service is most compared with Microsoft Entra External ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Okta Workforce Identity and Omada Identity, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo. See our AWS Directory Service vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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