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We performed a comparison between AWS Directory Service and Omada Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"AWS handles everything on the backend requiring minimal legwork from our team. We only require a dedicated database administrator while depending on Amazon for RDS.""I like the manageability. Activate Connect makes it easier to assign information and to manage the resources in the network.""Two-step authentication is very useful and important.""AWS Directory Service is secure.""The most valuable feature is ease of use.""We like the fact that it's got such great redundancy.""The most valuable feature is that because it's all in the cloud, you don't need to manage the infrastructure.""Provides good performance and availability."

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"Two valuable features of Omada Identity are the ability to discover accounts and link them to identities, and the automatic disabling of inactive accounts or identities.""Omada's most valuable aspect is its usability.""The identity lifecycle support is definitely valuable because we are a complex organization, and there is a lot of onboarding, movement, and offboarding in our organization. We have 31,000 users, and there are a lot of users who are constantly onboarding, offboarding, and moving. So, we need to make sure that these activities are supported. In old times, we used to do everything manually. Everyone was onboarded, offboarded, or moved manually. So, from a business point of view and an economics point of view, identity lifecycle is most valuable. From a security point of view, access review is the most important feature for us.""The most valuable feature in Omada is the governance. We work with other products and other product vendors, but the sweet spot in the market for Omada is where things are heavy on governance.""The key benefit of Omada Identity is maintaining complete control.""Omada Identity Suite has a very powerful workflow engine. It is used for requesting access for approval to everything that's around Access Management and for re-certification purposes.""It has a lot of out-of-the-box features. It is flexible, and there are a lot of possibilities to configure and extend it. It is user-friendly. It has an interface that is end-user or business-user friendly.""Its best feature is definitely the process design. It is quite easy and straightforward to design a process."

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Cons
"AWS Directory Service needs to improve processing.""The AWS Directory Service should be easier to integrate.""AWS could improve the number of regions. Azure has passed them. The ned more consistency, as far as the Northeast is concerned.""We had a problem with the schema uploading and setting up the directory when we are migrating our users from on-premises to cloud infrastructure.""To get CloudWatch to monitor your memory and storage, you have to do some configuration within your server, which sometimes results in errors.""The group policy can be improved.""Can be improved by including on-premises access for services through Identity Access Management.""Some of the security protocols are difficult to understand."

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"The architecture of the entire system should also be less complex. The way they process the data is complex.""I would like to search on date fields, which is not possible now.""If you're running Omada on a cloud service, you may have some issues deploying the newest release. Sometimes, the latest release doesn't adapt to the processes we have already installed. Identity Access Management is a critical system for our organization, and we need to ensure that everyone has the same access as they did before the release.""When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features.""What I would most like to see added to the product is role management, especially enterprise or business role management, and the processes around that.""I would like more training. As someone who is new to this world, I don't feel that the courses Omada provides are good enough. They should also improve the documentation. It is difficult to learn how to use the solution by yourself""Omada could make it a bit more convenient to send emails based on events automatically. Having that functionality is critical for us to maintain transparency.""The backend is pretty good but the self-service request access screen, the GUI, needs improvement. It's an old-fashioned screen. Also, Omada has reports, but I wouldn't dare show them to the business because they look like they're from 1995. I know they are working on these things and that’s good, because they’re really needed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is reasonable."
  • "The pricing depends because with AWS there are two types of directory objects: 30,000 and 500,000. It varies. AWS provides the pricing calculators so we can get an estimate from there as per the company requirement of how many users and objects that we need to create. So we can go to that portal, put in the data, and get the quotation. There are no extra licensing fees. It's all included."
  • "AWS' pricing is fair, and costs can be cut if you look carefully at when you're using it."
  • "We pay an annual subscription fee."
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  • "The pricing is too high for SMBs."
  • "Omada continues to be very competitive on pricing, especially on the Omada cloud product."
  • "The initial total cost of ownership to implement Omada Identity is not small. The TCO for the implementation is as high as any other solution. However, the cost of maintaining the solution is at par or lower than competitors, including adding more features or maintaining the system after the initial deployment or installation to make sure that they are available for users to use or extending the functionalities of those activities. Those maintenance costs are lower than other vendors, but the initial cost of getting the system installed is still high."
  • "It is licensed per managed user per year."
  • "There were a lot of administrator, partner, and supplier accounts for people who were no longer working for us but still in the system. So, we reduced the number of users no longer with the company, which saved us some money on licensing."
  • "It's a fair price for the on-premises system. Compared with what we had before, it's much cheaper and we get all the modules in one. We tried to go with the cloud, but it was far too expensive."
  • "From an on-prem point of view, the cost is quite transparent and reasonable. The direct cost is primarily for licenses and maintenance on licenses."
  • "My client deals directly with the Omada Identity team in terms of licensing. I never look at pricing, so I'm not aware of how much the solution costs, but it's worth the money. Often, when you begin to use Omada Identity and it takes a while to set up, it'll be irreversible, and you'd depend on and focus more on the functionality of the solution, rather than its price tag."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of AWS Directory Service is cost-cutting features.
    Top Answer:AWS Directory Service needs to improve processing.
    Top Answer:We don't have to go in and do a lot of the work that we did before. It may have saved us somewhere in the range of 10 to 30 percent of the time we spent on provisioning access.
    Top Answer:My client deals directly with the Omada Identity team in terms of licensing. I never look at pricing, so I'm not aware of how much the solution costs, but it's worth the money. Often, when you begin… more »
    Top Answer:There are some technical bits and pieces that we have looked at that could be better. For instance, when you do a recalculation of an identity, it's hard to understand what was incorrect before you… more »
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    Also Known As
    AWS Managed Microsoft AD
    Omada Identity Suite, Omada Identity Cloud
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    Overview

    AWS Directory Service lets you run Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a managed service. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also referred to as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, is powered by Windows Server 2012 R2. When you select and launch this directory type, it is created as a highly available pair of domain controllers connected to your virtual private cloud (VPC). The domain controllers run in different Availability Zones in a region of your choice. Host monitoring and recovery, data replication, snapshots, and software updates are automatically configured and managed for you.

    Omada Identity delivers an end-to-end identity and access management solution with essential identity governance functionality for secure, compliant, and efficient administration of all users' access rights across on-premises or cloud-based systems. The solution provides configurable best practice processes that covers all identity and access related scenarios from providing an access risk overview, management of identities lifecycle, to automated enforcement of policies.

    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    Bayer, ECCO Shoes, Vattenfall, NuStar Energy, Unicredit, Schiphol Group
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Government16%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise36%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise60%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
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    AWS Directory Service is ranked 10th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews while Omada Identity is ranked 4th in Identity Management (IM) with 46 reviews. AWS Directory Service is rated 8.6, while Omada Identity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AWS Directory Service writes "Extends AD identity and management capabilities to AWS resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Omada Identity writes "The solution has sped up employee onboarding while reducing manual work". AWS Directory Service is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra External ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas Omada Identity is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Microsoft Entra ID, Saviynt, One Identity Manager and SAP Identity Management.

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