Amazon Cognito Reviews

From an architectural perspective, we use Amazon Cognito for mobile application’s custom onboarding and SDKs to authenticate the users through the gateway.

The product is valuable for saving time and provides the convenience of not building user management and authentication systems from scratch. They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication.

Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users. We have to select multiple parameters that require research. This process could be simplified.

I rate the product’s stability an eight out of ten.

We have developed the product for more than 10,000 end users.

The initial setup requires working on many features. It would be better to provide a standard template for an easier process. There could be an option to create templates as per requirement.

The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools. The scalability, usage, and computing are affordable. I recommend it from a cost point of view.

I recommend Amazon Cognito to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

We use AWS Cognito for authentication and authorization of our system. We use Cognito alongside Okta. Because of the high cost of Okta, we have a hybrid model of both solutions. 

The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive.

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.

This is a stable solution.

This is a scalable solution. 

We are premium customers of AWS, so we get support in a very efficient way.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward. 

The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market. 

I would recommend Cognito for users who are already AWS customers. Cognito will provide inbuilt authentication on operation for those services and capabilities in a cost-efficient manner.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

We use this solution in integrate with different partners and financial services. It is a good solution but we need more training help us to discover and explore all of its features. 

We have 500 users making use of it. 

The cost of this solution is high when used by many people in an organization. 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.

I have been using this solution for three months. 

This is a stable solution.

This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it. My main concern with this kind of scaling is that the cost increases significantly on a monthly basis. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy review the documentation and complete the implementation. We needed three engineers for this setup.

We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs. 

My advice to others would be to review the business model and the cost, and understand the different products in the lifecycle of transactions end to end. This will assist in calculating the cost of the platform over time. It's very important to understand the business model, the different tools that can be used and to analyze the transactions end to end.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. The main reason for this rating is that I am not familiar with all of its components and features. 

We use it as a dedicated solution. We use it to authenticate our web applications.

Setting up groups is easy, as well as assigning users to groups. 

You need to evaluate the export users. The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement.

I have been using Amazon Cognito for three years. 

It is a scalable solution. 

The initial setup is not straightforward.

I would rate the overall solution a four out of ten.