F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Amazon Cognito compete in the identity and access management sector. Users prefer Amazon Cognito's features and pricing, while F5 BIG-IP APM is favored for deployment flexibility and customer service.
Features: F5 BIG-IP APM offers sophisticated access policies, SSO, and integration options. Amazon Cognito provides seamless integration with AWS services, user authentication, and scalability. Users generally prefer Amazon Cognito's features.
Room for Improvement: Users note F5 BIG-IP APM could improve its usability and documentation, while Amazon Cognito could benefit from more robust customization and enhanced multi-region support. Each product has specific areas where users see a need for enhancement.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: F5 BIG-IP APM is praised for its varied deployment models but is criticized for its complexity. It receives positive feedback for customer service. Amazon Cognito is easier to deploy due to its AWS environment but has less favorable customer support feedback.
Pricing and ROI: F5 BIG-IP APM users report higher setup costs and varied ROI based on deployment scale. Amazon Cognito is considered cost-effective with a favorable ROI, particularly for AWS users. Amazon Cognito's pricing structure is appreciated more by users.
Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data in the AWS Cloud, such as app preferences or game state, without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. This means you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is an access management proxy solution for managing global access to the enterprise networks, cloud providers, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Through a single management interface, BIG-IP APM consolidates remote, mobile, network, virtual, and web access.
BIG-IP APM can also serve as a bridge between modern and classic authentication and authorization protocols and methods. For applications which are unable to support modern authentication and authorization protocols, like SAML and OAuth with OIDC, but which do support classic authentication methods, BIG-IP APM converts user credentials to the appropriate authentication standard supported by the application.
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Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by BIG-IP APM users.
Mahmmoud Rabie, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, writes that BIG-IP APM is "A highly stable solution for load balancing, but the initial setup is complex."
Clyde Livingston, Senior Process Specialist at Telstra, says that BIG-IP APM is "Easy to use, useful access remotely, but lacking stability."
Chris Lam, Senior Solution Consultant at Macroview Telecom Limited, states that BIG-IP APM is "Useful for remote access VPN and VPI integration with VMware.
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