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."
"Two-step authentication is very useful and important."
"AWS Directory Service is secure."
"Provides good performance and availability."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"We can provide specific access to people based on what they need from our accounts."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Directory Service is cost-cutting features."
"I like the manageability. Activate Connect makes it easier to assign information and to manage the resources in the network."
"We find the solution to be reliable for our customers and it is nice that it is cloud-based and can be accessed from anywhere."
"A solution that's easy to use, stable, and reliable."
"It's easy to use and straightforward."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"The solution can scale very well."
"It has a wide range of MFA options. I prefer "Okta Verify" out of them all."
"The feature that is most valuable to me is the automated user provisioning that we set up using Okta as a major part of that process."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"Can be improved by including on-premises access for services through Identity Access Management."
"I would like to see better integration with other business solutions."
"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."
"AWS could improve the number of regions. Azure has passed them. The ned more consistency, as far as the Northeast is concerned."
"The group policy can be improved."
"The solution lacks certain features."
"To get CloudWatch to monitor your memory and storage, you have to do some configuration within your server, which sometimes results in errors."
"The AWS Directory Service should be easier to integrate."
"The lifecycle management part can be improved. It should also have identity governance and the ability to choose a specific factor authentication at the application level. Its licensing and pricing can also be improved."
"The guest user access could be improved."
"There should be automated aggregation and complete classification processes included in it."
"It's not compatible with on-premises installations, unless you host it as a SaaS. We were not able to do that. For example, imagine a scenario where the cloud is not available. Then, Okta will not work for you. That use case will readily fail because it doesn't have an on-premises installation that you can use to authenticate or provide identity and access management. If you have a purely on-premises solution that is not connected to the internet, then this will not work. This is one area that can be improved."
"On the admin side, we can create our own passwords instead of generating one, which is usually difficult to explain to a user."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve provisioning it can be made simpler."
"We still had to write several internal programs/scripts to complete the user-provisioning process. Okta does not have the ability to provision mailbox accounts for on-premise Exchange or in a hybrid O365 environment. The Group Push function from Okta to AD did not work reliably in our environment."
AWS Directory Service is ranked 10th 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 59 reviews. AWS Directory Service is rated 8.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. 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, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and Omada Identity, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and Auth0. See our AWS Directory Service vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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