Amazon Cognito Reviews

We use the solution for user management and authentication. Most of the time, when users are created on the core application, they are also created on Amazon Cognito. Then, we use policies to govern what resources they can and cannot access.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication.

What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM).

I have never faced any issues with the solution’s stability.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

Around 120 users are using the solution in our organization.

Amazon Cognito is a very scalable solution.

The initial setup of the solution is pretty easy and can be done in just one click.

You only need about 20 to 30 minutes to deploy the solution in the cloud.

We pay a monthly licensing fee for the solution.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten.

The solution is deployed on the cloud in our organization. Our entire team of managers, developers, admins, and normal users are needed for the solution's deployment and maintenance. Amazon Cognito is a reliable and stable tool. It fuses very well and works harmoniously with other microservices.

Amazon Cognito is fully integratable with other AWS services or third-party applications. We've done Azure AD authentication, which we currently use, and it works well. The rest are the token and key, which we use for authentication at the service level. The solution’s documentation is very easy to follow.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

From an architectural perspective, we use Amazon Cognito for mobile application’s custom onboarding and SDKs to authenticate the users through the gateway.

The product is valuable for saving time and provides the convenience of not building user management and authentication systems from scratch. They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication.

Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users. We have to select multiple parameters that require research. This process could be simplified.

I rate the product’s stability an eight out of ten.

We have developed the product for more than 10,000 end users.

The initial setup requires working on many features. It would be better to provide a standard template for an easier process. There could be an option to create templates as per requirement.

The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools. The scalability, usage, and computing are affordable. I recommend it from a cost point of view.

I recommend Amazon Cognito to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

I am using Amazon Cognito for single-tenant authentication. 

One of the key benefits of this software is its ease of integration with a wide range of applications, including mobile apps and web applications. This simplifies the process of integration, and it can be seamlessly incorporated with Azure, Kubernetes, and other software systems.

Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration.

I have been using Amazon Cognito for approximately 6 months.

The solution is stable.

I rate the stability of Amazon Cognito a ten out of ten.

We have a couple of thousand of people using this solution.

Amazon Cognito is highly scalable.

I rate the scalability of Amazon Cognito a ten out of ten.

I did not contact the vendor for support.

The deployment is easy if it is configured correctly. The time of the deployment depends on the company using it and the options selected.

I did the implementation of the solution.

The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it.

The cost of the solution is reasonable with the pay-as-you-go model.

I rate the price of Amazon Cognito a five out of ten.

We chose this solution because of the pay-as-you-go pricing model.

The solution does not require maintenance.

I rate Amazon Cognito a nine out of ten.

We use Amazon Cognito when we need to write the last code and then we don't need to worry about user security and data.  Amazon Cognito handles all the security, such as OTP and email verification. It does not require a lot of code to do a lot of things. It only requires a click with the mouse, it is plug-and-play. Additionally, you can customize your design. The functionality you need is verifying emails, secure data passwords, and encrypted passwords. All of the user data is saved into the Cognito pool.

The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems.

The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation.

Amazon Cognito can improve by having documentation verification.

I have used Amazon Cognito within one year.

When you integrate there can be some stability challenges. For example, if you use Amazon Cognito for the rest APIs you need to generate a token. 

I rate the stability of Amazon Cognito a seven out of ten.

There are many aspects of the solution that can improve.

Amazon Cognito is highly scalable.

I rate the scalability of Amazon Cognito a nine out of ten.

We did not use another solution prior to Amazon Cognito. We did coding manually.

When implementing Amazon Cognito it is always important to study the documentation.

You need to do some configuration in Amazon Cognito which will generate a form. You can customize the UI and it will generate a link so you can directly use it. Additionally, they provide a plug-and-play code that whenever you create a Cognito they guide you.

I rate the initial setup of Amazon Cognito an eight out of ten.

The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users.

I rate the price of Amazon Cognito a five out of ten.

We use this solution in integrate with different partners and financial services. It is a good solution but we need more training help us to discover and explore all of its features. 

We have 500 users making use of it. 

The cost of this solution is high when used by many people in an organization. In a future release, we would like to have different methods to validate the characteristic of a user. For example, we would like to use biometric data to analyze the behavior of users.

I have been using this solution for three months. 

This is a stable solution.

This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it. My main concern with this kind of scaling is that the cost increases significantly on a monthly basis. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy review the documentation and complete the implementation. We needed three engineers for this setup.

We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs. 

My advice to others would be to review the business model and the cost, and understand the different products in the lifecycle of transactions end to end. This will assist in calculating the cost of the platform over time. It's very important to understand the business model, the different tools that can be used and to analyze the transactions end to end.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. The main reason for this rating is that I am not familiar with all of its components and features. 

We use AWS Cognito for authentication and authorization of our system. We use Cognito alongside Okta. Because of the high cost of Okta, we have a hybrid model of both solutions. 

The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive.

The ease and simplicity of integration could be improved when using this solution. When using Okta, scope is a single endpoint with a parameter as a scope. In the Cognito for each scope, there is a separate endpoint.

This is a stable solution.

This is a scalable solution. 

We are premium customers of AWS, so we get support in a very efficient way.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward. 

The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market. 

I would recommend Cognito for users who are already AWS customers. Cognito will provide inbuilt authentication on operation for those services and capabilities in a cost-efficient manner.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

We use it as a dedicated solution. We use it to authenticate our web applications.

Setting up groups is easy, as well as assigning users to groups. 

You need to evaluate the export users. The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement.

I have been using Amazon Cognito for three years. 

It is a scalable solution. 

The initial setup is not straightforward.

I would rate the overall solution a four out of ten.