We performed a comparison between AWS IAM Identity Center and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Ping Identity and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."
"The features around permissions are excellent."
"The two-step authentication is the most valuable."
"The user management groups are valuable. It is a pretty basic product, but user management, in general, is valuable with the ability to differentiate between business lines and add different policies, group-based management, and dynamic user groups."
"I like Intune's MDM and MI."
"The tool's most valuable feature is auto logs. It helps with user activity and monitoring. It also assists us with GLBA policies and procedures. Microsoft Entra ID gives a 360 view of what the user has access to, what applications are available to them, when they are logging in and out, etc. It makes knowing what is happening to our tenants incredibly powerful."
"Entra ID can be deployed using a hybrid model for organizations with a significant on-premises presence, or in a fully cloud-based setup for those that do not."
"It offers features that improve our security posture such as multifactor authentication, which is the second layer of protection that is used when we log into the cloud."
"If you want to replicate a website at the frontend in Azure, it's very easy to do it globally."
"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."
"Our users sometimes experience issues from having multiple Microsoft accounts, which can cause some confusion and hassle."
"In a hybrid deployment, when we update a license by changing the UPN or email address of a user, it does not get updated automatically during normal sync. This means that we have to update it manually from Azure, which is something that needs to be corrected."
"At first, it was a bit challenging to come up with a workaround that would get authentication to work."
"The downside of using a single password to access the entire system is that if those credentials are compromised, the hacker will have full access."
"We would like to see more system updates."
"From an admin perspective, I would like to see improvement in the Microsoft Graph API."
"The most challenging aspect I found was the creation of organizational units and specific domains. They have a tool called Bastion, which is expensive and a little bit confusing."
"To look at more documentation, engineering, or an open standard would be nice."
AWS IAM Identity Center is ranked 14th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 1 review while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. AWS IAM Identity Center is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS IAM Identity Center writes "Helps users provide or revoke accesses whenever needed". 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 IAM Identity Center is most compared with Red Hat Single Sign On, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Ping Identity Platform, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity.
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