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Amazon Cognito

Overview

What is Amazon Cognito?

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.

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Recent Reviews

Simple and secure!

8 out of 10
July 29, 2021
Incentivized
This is used only by our tech department, but we are looking at doing a company-wide rollout as we are able to streamline the …
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Pricing

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Starting Price

$0.01

Cloud
Per MAU

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

AWS Supports You - Using Amazon Cognito for Application Access Control

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5 Minutes to Amazon Cognito: Federated Identity and Mobile App Demo

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Product Details

What is Amazon Cognito?

Amazon Cognito Video

Introduction to Amazon Cognito - User Authentication and Mobile Data Service on AWS

Amazon Cognito Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.

The most common users of Amazon Cognito are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 27, 2022

AWS Cognito: A good solution for a B2C web/and mobile apps having simple Authentication needs. Not for B2B SaaS use-cases.

Piyush Goel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Piyush Goel
Senior Vice President - Engineering
Capillary Technologies (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for Authentication and Authorization of the mobile applications, and middleware that we write for our enterprise customers. We also evaluated it for the use-case of Federated Identity integration to other IDP solutions like Microsoft ActiveDirectory, etc. We also use it to enable MFA on a few web apps.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to set-up.
  • Easy to configure the UserPools, and the Identity Pools.
  • Seamless Integration with AWS services like Lambda, IAM, etc.
  • Cheaper than other providers.
  • SCIM implementation is not present.
  • B2B SaaS use-cases are very hard to configure. More suitable or B2C use-cases.
  • Needs more recipes, plugins, SDK's.
  • 2FA with Email as an OTP channel is not supported.
  • 2 FA using biometrics is not available; can be customised using lambda.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited
  1. B2C mobile and web apps with a high number of users.
  2. Cheaper and cost-effective.
  3. If the other pieces of the infra are already using AWS services like Lambda, S3, Pinpoint, etc.
Not Suited For:
  1. Advanced use-cases (Biometrics based authentication) Email, and other MFA channels.
  2. For any use-cases needing SCIM.
  3. Customized flows of SSO, and MFA will need a layer on Lambda and other AWS services.

Most Important Features
  • Identity and Authorisation concepts like UserPools, and Identity Pools.
  • Cost Effective for up to 40-50K users.
  • Server less and Event Driven Workflows.
Return on Investment
  • Faster turnaround to built a quick and fast Authentication and Authorisation system.
  • Easy to set-up and monitor.
  • Cost Effective. Saved ~20K USD over other products.
Alternatives Considered
- 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.
- Good Documentation, and well-designed SDKs.
Other Software Used
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Need a solution to prototype fast, and something cheap and cost-effective. Our use-cases were very simple for the web-apps, and mobile apps and our user-base was limited to 10K unique users. MFA requirements were also simple using only OTP on mobile. Since our infra is hosted on AWS, Cognito's ease of integration with AWS services allowed a faster rollout.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Nothing much. For the use-case for which we employed Cognito, it fitted nicely.
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