AWS Organizations vs. Microsoft Entra External ID

AWS Organizations

Microsoft Entra External ID

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Organizations	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	AWS Organizations helps users centrally govern an environment as the organization grows, and scale workloads on AWS. Using AWS Organizations, users can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance.	N/A
Microsoft Entra External ID	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs.	$0 per month per active users

Pricing

AWS Organizations

Microsoft Entra External ID

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Premium P1 (for More than 50,000 MAU): $0.00325
per month per active users
Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU): $0.01625
per month per active users

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Organizations	Microsoft Entra External ID
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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A flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	AWS Organizations	Microsoft Entra External ID
Top Pros	Pro User access	Pro User experience
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Developer experience Minus Vs code Minus Role management

Features

AWS Organizations

Microsoft Entra External ID

Identity Management

Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
	AWS Organizations 9.7 1 Ratings 18% above category average	Microsoft Entra External ID - Ratings
ID-Management Access Control	9.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS Organizations	Microsoft Entra External ID
Small Businesses	Dashlane Score 9.2 out of 10	Dashlane Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	RSA Access Manager (Discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	RSA Access Manager (Discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	RSA Access Manager (Discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	RSA Access Manager (Discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS Organizations	Microsoft Entra External ID
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.3 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Organizations	Microsoft Entra External ID
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS AWS Organizations is well suited for centralized billing and user management of all of your AWS accounts when paired with AWS SSO and a SAML provider of your choice. AWS Organizations does not have an integration with IAM user accounts and this could be helpful for organizations without SAML capability. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Brings all AWS organizations under one management structure for billing Simplified management of user access with AWS SSO Centralized reporting Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Single sign-on simplifies access to your apps from anywhere Strong authentication for your customers using their preferred identity provider. Integrating with social accounts such as Facebook or Google+ Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Could include cross organization IAM management Could allow quick login access to other organizations like the AWS SSO homepage Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code Group and role management requires additional effort The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love Incentivized Lars Kemmann Principal Architect Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS Not applicable. AWS Organizations is unique in managing multiple AWS accounts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Each one of these alternatives has pros and cons. PingOne from Ping Identity states they "help deliver the secure and seamless customer experience to win battles for customer acquisition, retention, revenue, loyalty, and trust." While that may be the case, they did not fit our needs. We have a complex system and it did not seem to fit into our business. Incentivized CR Cj Rosenstiel IT Apps Programmer Sr Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS AWS Organizations allow for quick user access when paired with AWS SSO and SAML groups. AWS Organizations does not use IAM users and there is an initial cost in time to set up AWS SSO. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective. Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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