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."They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are the pre and post-token generation, and the different Cognito triggers. It has lots of functionality and flexibility."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"Azure Active Directory has been very useful for our company, it is not difficult to use."
"Azure AD allowed us to get rid of servers and other hardware running at our offices. We moved everything to the cloud. Once we set up roles and permissions, it's only a matter of adding people and removing people from different groups and letting permissions flow through."
"User and device management is the most valuable feature."
"The best feature is the single sign-on provision for the various type of users."
"We use BitLocker for policy enforcement. And now, because of the Microsoft 365 Business Premium package, we get Intune as a part of it. That's very useful for us for setting policies and managing the systems. The biggest strength of Azure AD is Intune."
"The central authentication server is most valuable. GPOs are useful for user and computer policies."
"The tool's most valuable features are security and integration with other tenants."
"I like the way it communicates to the cloud."
"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."
"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"It would be good to have more clarity around licensing."
"From an admin perspective, I would like to see improvement in the Microsoft Graph API."
"The management interface has some areas that need improvement."
"The pricing is okay, however, it could always be better in the future."
"An area where there is room for improvement is the ease of use of the dashboards."
"I want to see more features to improve security, such as integrated user behavior analysis."
"I would like to be able to authenticate Wi-Fi users using the Azure ID"
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
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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