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AWS IAM Identity Center vs Ping Identity Platform comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Ping Identity are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5, while Ping Identity is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Ping Identity users who would recommend it.
AWS IAM Identity Center
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100% willing to recommend
Ping Identity Platform
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100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between AWS IAM Identity Center and Ping Identity Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.3
AWS IAM Identity Center needs clearer UI, better group management, time-sensitive access control, and improved user management flexibility.
Sentiment score
5.3
Ping Identity Platform requires stronger functionalities, enhanced user experience, better security, and comprehensive support to compete effectively with Microsoft.
Having a lot of users on one instance is hard to configure, so I hope for more flexibility and ease in configuration.
This involves creating a user with necessary permissions valid for only a specific period and then automatically revoking access.
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
AWS IAM Identity Center scales efficiently, supporting numerous users, groups, and roles without performance issues, despite permissions management complexity.
Sentiment score
7.6
Ping Identity Platform efficiently scales across servers and clusters, supports large environments, but performance varies based on configurations.
The scalability of AWS IAM Identity Center is excellent.
It can handle both a small number of users and a bigger number of users efficiently.
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Setup Cost

Sentiment score
8.8
AWS IAM Identity Center is praised for its affordable pricing, making it cost-effective for managing permissions and federations.
No sentiment score available
Ping Identity Platform is competitively priced, offering robust features and good ROI, but may be costly for small businesses.
Pricing for AWS IAM Identity Center is very affordable, rated at two out of ten with one being cheap.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.4
AWS IAM Identity Center is highly reliable, boasting 99.96% uptime and consistently rated ten out of ten for stability.
Sentiment score
7.9
Ping Identity Platform is highly reliable, with minimal bugs or crashes, though some infrastructure and server connection issues exist.
It offers 99.96% uptime.
Stability-wise, it is functioning well without any outages or crashes.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies access management with centralized policies, templates, and role-based permissions for efficient multi-account security.
Sentiment score
8.0
Ping Identity Platform offers robust security with multi-factor authentication, seamless integration, user-friendly interface, and extensive customization options.
The most valuable features of AWS IAM Identity Center are role-based permissions and existing permissions templates.
The most valuable feature is the security configuration ease, which is great for me, especially as a beginner.
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Customer Service

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Ping Identity Platform's support is prompt, knowledgeable, and proactive, though some users find the support portal confusing.
They are prompt, keep you updated, and provide excellent assistance.
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Categories and Ranking

AWS IAM Identity Center
Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)
13th
Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
18th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ping Identity Platform
Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)
4th
Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Authentication Systems (5th), Data Governance (6th), Access Management (3rd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (2nd), Directory Servers (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Nizamuddeen TZ - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps users provide or revoke accesses whenever needed
I don't think there is any need for improvement in the product since everything has been created architecturally by AWS. AWS has given all the features in the tool. In the product, two groups cannot have the same name. There will be a conflict if the same name is provided to two groups in the tool. If you want to say something to another user, the tool fails to identify which group out of the two having the same name is involved in the activity. In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the product.
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Dilip Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use but requires improvements in the area of stability
In my company, we have worked on authorization, and I know that there are different types of grants. We have worked on the authorization code, client credentials, and ROPC grant. There are two types of tokens, like the JWT token and internally managed reference tokens. JWT tokens are useful for finding information related to the claim requests. Internally managed reference tokens are useful for dealing with visual data and information. For the clients to fit the user information, they need to do additional work to fit all the user info into the site, which is to define and validate the token issue and provide the request for VPNs. I worked on the key differences between the authorization code and implicit grant. In the authorization code type, you will have the authorization code issued initially to the client, and the client has to exchange it with the authorization server, like using a DAC channel to get the access token. In implicit grants, tokens are issued right away if the application is a single-page application. We can either use the authorization code or an implicit grant.
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
26%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS IAM Identity Center?
The product is easy for beginners to learn and use.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS IAM Identity Center?
AWS Identity Center is free, making it a cost-effective solution for managing IAM permissions and federations.
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What needs improvement with AWS IAM Identity Center?
The AWS Identity Center's user interface could be improved to provide a clearer understanding of how the system operates. Although the API side is well-developed, the console can be misleading, and...
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What do you like most about PingID?
The mobile biometric authentication option improved user experience. It's always about security because, with two-factor authentication, it's always a separate device verifying the actual user logg...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingID?
The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap.
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What needs improvement with PingID?
The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it.
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Also Known As

AWS Single Sign On, AWS SSO
Ping Identity (ID), PingFederate, PingAccess, PingOne, PingDataGovernance, PingDirectory, OpenDJ
 

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Overview

AWS IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing your workforce's access to AWS applications or your multiple AWS accounts (or both). It is a flexible solution that can be used to connect your existing identity source or help you create users in AWS. IAM Identity Center can be used alongside your existing AWS account access configurations.

IDENTITY DEFINED SECURITY PLATFORM delivers a unified, standards-based platform that can be deployed as SaaS, software or both and can scale to handle millions of identities. From multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to access security, directory and data governance, our capabilities work together to give employees, partners and customers secure access to cloud, mobile and enterprise applications, securing and streamlined everything from sign-on to sign-off and everywhere in between.
 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Equinix, Land O'Lakes, CDPHP, Box, International SOS, Opower, VSP, Chevron, Truist, Academy of Art University, Northern Air Cargo, Repsol
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