Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Cognito	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Cognito is a mobile identity product that allows users to add user sign-up and sign-in to mobile and web apps, and authenticate users through social identity providers.	$0.01 Per MAU

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Amazon Cognito

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Amazon Cognito
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	Amazon Cognito
Considered Both Products	Amazon Cognito Piyush Goel Senior Vice President - Engineering Chose Amazon Cognito - Cost-Effective and cheaper than Okta for up to 100K users. - Easy to set up and configure. - Integration with other AWS services like Lambda, Pinpoint. Incentivized Helpful? Randy Whitten, MBA, ITIL v.3, Doctoral Candidate (DIT) Director of IT/Operations and Security Chose Amazon Cognito The service with Amazon is much better than Google's. When I can get Secure Passwords. OAuth, SAML, and More. It makes it great for a simple Integration. The startup was quick once we got a support case and a tech online. There has been limited Configurability. This was a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Amazon Cognito AWS Cognito stacks up against others because it allows you to create unique identities for your users (Internal/vendors/customers) using a number of common public identity providers e.g. (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated/anonymous guests. You can … Incentivized Helpful? Philipp Pettit Software Engineer Chose Amazon Cognito They are ideal tools to create a secure and unique login experience for our applications. Thanks to its API authorization, Amazon Cognito ensures connections to applications that are secure.It is easy to use and provides easy access to files and applications that you need to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Amazon Cognito N/A Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Amazon Cognito Amazon Cognito is easier to set up, but Auth0 offers some nice things such as more logon screen custimizability. Auth0 seems to be aimed at developers but it still is quite easy to use and set up. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Chose Amazon Cognito Firebase is the best for mobile environments while Cognito is best used with the Amazon ecosystem Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Amazon Cognito I've used bespoke solutions for password, email, and OAuth flows, I've used AuthZero, and I've used Okta. In all cases, Cognito wins: Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Amazon Cognito We use our own build user manager at the moment which works okay in our current on-prem situation, but not great. Choosing for the cloud and AWS, in particular, allows us to use AWS Cognito for resiliency, ease of use, great features and scalability. Not all of which were as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Amazon Cognito It is easier to build multi-factor single sign-on with Okta. Okta has better documentation and provides a better developer experience. It lacks Cognito's seamless integration with other AWS products, however, integration with other Amazon products (like Lambda for customizing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Amazon Cognito When compared to Okta, I would say Cognito is still not up to pace with Okta. However, I guess they are constantly updating their features and will soon come with the new features. I would say Cogntio provides a better interface than Azure. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Set up Pro Sign up
Top Cons	Minus User friendly Minus Learning curve Minus Fully customizable

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User Ratings
	Amazon Cognito
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (15 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Cognito
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS Well Suited B2C mobile and web apps with a high number of users. Cheaper and cost-effective. If the other pieces of the infra are already using AWS services like Lambda, S3, Pinpoint, etc. Not Suited For: Advanced use-cases (Biometrics based authentication) Email, and other MFA channels. For any use-cases needing SCIM. Customized flows of SSO, and MFA will need a layer on Lambda and other AWS services. Incentivized Piyush Goel Senior Vice President - Engineering Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Strong integration with React.js and client-side applications Easy to bridge Cognito identities with the rest of the AWS ecosystem Easy to store user profile data directly in Cognito rather than having to build additional services/endpoints Easy integration with AWS Lambda to extend and add sophistication to the service Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Amazon Cognito has a bit of a learning curve. You need to learn its concepts and terminology. The documentation does not describe some topics comprehensively. Some Console screens would benefit from improved search and filtering options. When another AWS product (e.g., SageMaker) configures Cognito on your behalf, it is not clear what you're getting. For example, the expiration of a temporary password was configured but never communicated. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Amazon AWS All the features AWS Cognito offers gives the user the options they need without making it too complicated. Your customers will be happy. On the administration site usability is also great. After a small learning curve, you can setup Cognito for your usage Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Amazon AWS AWS Support overall is poor. Your main resources are trainings and the docs, and the docs can be very confusing. Using Cognito well involves having a developer learn it deeply and help support your team in understanding it. That said, Cognito's competitors also have dismal support and even worse documentation, so while this isn't a strength for Cognito it may still be the frontrunner here. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS They are ideal tools to create a secure and unique login experience for our applications. Thanks to its API authorization, Amazon Cognito ensures connections to applications that are secure.It is easy to use and provides easy access to files and applications that you need to complete your goal. Incentivized Philipp Pettit Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS ROI is great for Amazon Cognito Overall. It is included in the AWS Free Tier so you can use it for a good amount without paying, so the software can be tested beforehand. The paid pricing is also affordable, so a positive impact on ROI. Incentivized DR. RAKESH TRIPATHI Head - Department of English & Foreign Languages Read full review
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