We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Microsoft Entra ID 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 most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"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."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"Installation is straightforward. It only took a couple of hours to set everything up."
"Single sign-on is the reason we use AD."
"Application integration is easy. MFA and password self-service have reduced most of the supportive work of IT. We use multi-factor authentication. Every access from a user is through multi-factor authentication. There is no legacy authentication. We have blocked legacy authentication methods. For people who use the MDM on mobile, we push our application through Intune. In a hybrid environment, users can work from anywhere. With Intune, we can push policies and secure the data."
"The most valuable feature is Identity and Access Management. As an IT administrator, this feature allows me to manage access for users and groups."
"Configuring the domain and setting it up in the Azure portal is just three clicks to be honest."
"When logging on to Azure AD it's pretty quick."
"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."
"It also has features that help improve security posture. The most important of these features include multifactor authentication, which is very useful for connecting to the organization, especially from outside the boundaries of the organization. That is very helpful when it comes to user security."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"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."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"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 secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"Be aware that it may not work perfectly globally yet. There are still glitches with the solution in Africa."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Having more training would be quite helpful."
"We would like to see more system updates."
"It would be good to have more clarity around licensing."
"There is no documentation about how Microsoft will scale Azure AD for customers. It only mentions that it will scale out if you have a lot of requests but does not mention how in detail."
"Entra ID is not battle-tested or stable enough to support a business of our size. There are some design issues specifically around support for legacy services."
"I want to be able to identify the audiences effectively and manage them."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 9th in Access Management with 10 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. 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 Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity and WSO2 Identity Server, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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