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Amazon Cognito vs Fastpath Assure comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 14, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito
Ranking in Access Management
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fastpath Assure
Ranking in Access Management
31st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Identity Management (IM) (43rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 2.4%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fastpath Assure is 0.9%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Cognito2.4%
Fastpath Assure0.9%
Other96.7%
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Featured Reviews

BM
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
Custom authentication has enabled secure multi-factor logins and unified access across apps
The features or capabilities of Amazon Cognito that I have found the most valuable so far include its seamless operation and the requirement of fewer integrations from the client side. All the features are there, enabling us to create the users, manage the groups, and manage access. Mostly, the access management is very good in Amazon Cognito, I would say. The benefits and positive impacts that Amazon Cognito has had in my experience include the fact that earlier we needed to implement so many things on behalf of the product itself. Now, the go-to-market strategy requires less than a week to complete integrations of the user flow, specifically mentioning that a basic authentication flow could be completed in a week itself. We don't have to care about how we manage the passwords, how we manage groups, and how we manage access management because all those things are there. It's handy, the documentation is very good, and it is easy to integrate. That's the reason I would say that the impact AWS is building on the product is great.
Fouad Chundoo - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Manager, Internal Audit at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Access reviews have identified critical user risks and now optimize ongoing license usage
The best feature of Fastpath Assure is the dashboard, which allows you to click and see all details immediately, showing where the loopholes are. The aspect of the dashboard I find most helpful is its visualization; it is a very nice dashboard compared to the previous version. Fastpath Assure has positively impacted our organization by enabling us to identify loopholes in excessive access rights granted to different users, and we are also working on minimizing our license costs. As for the outcomes, we have received proper feedback from users thanks to Fastpath Assure. Users were not using the system as they should have, but now we can pinpoint where the loopholes are, and hopefully, by the end of this year or next year, we will work on improving those areas in terms of segregation of duties.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"The features most valuable to us are the ability to integrate with various IDPs and the capability to sync with multiple applications."
"I would recommend Cognito for users who are already AWS customers."
"What is quite valuable is that we can outsource storage of the credentials to AWS, and they manage it quite securely."
"I rate Amazon Cognito nine out of ten."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"Fastpath Assure has positively impacted our organization by enabling us to identify loopholes in excessive access rights granted to different users, and we are also working on minimizing our license costs."
 

Cons

"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"I would rate its scalability as five out of ten. Moving users between different pools or accounts creates new identities, which means IDs stored in our database must also be changed."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment."
"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"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."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"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, but in Cognito, for each scope, there is a separate endpoint."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that it is quite expensive, but with Fastpath Assure, we have identified areas where we are paying more for licensing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."
"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."
"The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."
"The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."
"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."
"We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?
I am aware that the pricing of Amazon Cognito is not managed by me directly but is managed by some other teams, specifically the DevOps teams. As far as I know, it is based on how many users we hav...
What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?
I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment. It is very tightly coupled with its own services, so it does not provide customization according to what the client need...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Cognito?
The usual use cases for Amazon Cognito that I have been working with mostly involve working for TLG Apps for three and a half years, where TLG Apps is a FinTech company in the UK. We were working f...
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