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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Cognito
If you're already using AWS, there's no reason why you should implement your own password authentication or OAuth flows when you can use Cognito instead. It solves that work for you astoundingly well. You might be tempted by a tool like Okta for OAuth flows, but unless you already have a hard dependency on it then you should go with Cognito instead. It's much lighter weight, and it's much more pleasant to extend it with lambdas.
If you don't have any AWS in your stack, or it's very very important to you to stay platform-independent for your login flows, then those are reasons to avoid Cognito.

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Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesOne Identity Identity Manager
Well-suited:Companies with .NET or windows technology as a core.Companies with AD as main Directory ServicesLess appropriate:Companies with lot UNIX boxesCompanies looking to support applications with many different connectors.
Identity and Access Management Architect for On-premise and Cloud Integrations , ITIL & Scrum Master
Icsynergy International, L.P.Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
Pros
Amazon Cognito
- Amazon Cognito allows you to build multi-factor authentication with a few clicks.
- Cognito supports sign-in with social identity providers like Facebook and Google.
- It is easy to manage Cognito users through the Console.
- It is easy to customize sign-up and sign-in workflows by integrating with AWS Lambda.

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Engineer in Engineering
Research Company, 11-50 employeesOne Identity Identity Manager
- Audit Trace History: Out of the box enables important field to trace and give you flexibility to expand them thru configuration settings.
- Provisioning to Active Directory: Synchronization Editor gives you flexibility to define what and when needs to be on sync.
- Web Portal: Latest version is more user friendly and support mobile devices.
Identity and Access Management Architect for On-premise and Cloud Integrations , ITIL & Scrum Master
Icsynergy International, L.P.Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
Cons
Amazon Cognito
- As such I do not find any major things as cons. However they can improve the documentation.
- Sometimes additional customisation increases complexity. Most of those advanced features are not used frequently.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
One Identity Identity Manager
- Web Designer: Hard to implement a new form from scratch.
- Rest API: Make more methods available.
- Connector: More connectors required like SNOW, Workday,etc.
Identity and Access Management Architect for On-premise and Cloud Integrations , ITIL & Scrum Master
Icsynergy International, L.P.Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
Usability
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito 8.0
Based on 2 answers
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

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Professional in Information Technology
Fund-Raising Company, 1001-5000 employeesOne Identity Identity Manager
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Support Rating
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito 7.3
Based on 3 answers
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.

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Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesOne Identity Identity Manager
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon Cognito

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Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employeesOne Identity Identity Manager
Selected due windows base technology, easy to deploy and AD connector.
Identity and Access Management Architect for On-premise and Cloud Integrations , ITIL & Scrum Master
Icsynergy International, L.P.Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon Cognito
- Amazon Cognito has had a positive impact on our business by allowing us to develop services that require user sign-up and sign-in more rapidly. Not only do we not need to build or maintain these features, but Cognito's implementation is also better than what we would be justified in building ourselves.
- Amazon Cognito makes user management easy. This reduces the time we have to spend supporting users. Non-technical product managers can even use the AWS Console to manage users without requiring support from developers.
- Amazon Cognito is likely more secure than what would be built in-house; a portion of our attack surface is now managed by Amazon.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Research Company, 11-50 employeesOne Identity Identity Manager
- Positive impact because we now disable users immediately from the authoritative source.
- Positive impact due our integration with EPIC.
Identity and Access Management Architect for On-premise and Cloud Integrations , ITIL & Scrum Master
Icsynergy International, L.P.Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon Cognito
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Amazon Cognito Editions & Modules
Edition
Starting Price | $0.011 |
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- Per MAU
Additional Pricing Details
—One Identity Identity Manager
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
One Identity Identity Manager Editions & Modules
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