Amazon Cognito vs IBM Security Verify Access comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Access Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.2, while IBM is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 7.4% mindshare in AM, compared to IBM’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 72% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon Cognito

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 11, 2024

IBM Security Verify Access and Amazon Cognito compete in the IAM space. IBM Security Verify Access is preferred for customization, while Amazon Cognito wins for AWS integration.

Features: IBM Security Verify Access offers robust SSO, MFA, and detailed access control. Amazon Cognito provides tight AWS integration, easy user pool management, and federated identities.

Room for Improvement: IBM Security Verify Access needs a more intuitive configuration process and better documentation. Amazon Cognito needs better support for custom attributes and improved error logging.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Security Verify Access requires professional services for deployment but has highly rated customer service. Amazon Cognito has simpler deployment but mixed customer service reviews.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Security Verify Access has higher upfront costs with substantial long-term ROI. Amazon Cognito offers a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model with good ROI due to lower ongoing costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito

Ranking in Access Management

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Security Verify Access

Ranking in Access Management

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (14th), Identity Management (IM) (22nd), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 7.4%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security Verify Access is 3.4%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited

May 2, 2024

Used for user management and authentication

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.

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Jared Ochieng

Information Technology Security Specialist at infoark

Mar 13, 2024

Offers multiple authentication methods like tokens and one-time passwords

The authentication process with IBM Security Verify Access is good and is considered one of the best identity and access management solutions. It helps with multi-factor authentication. It offers multiple authentication methods like tokens and one-time passwords, enhancing security. It also includes features like password vaults and single sign-on, streamlining the access process for remote and local users across different solutions. The tool provides a password vault, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication. It offers various authentication methods like fingerprint integration, one-time passwords, or tokens sent via email or SMS. This ensures secure access to your accounts by providing multiple authentication options. The policy control feature allows you to set authentication measures and policies for your organization's identity governance. This feature helps create standardized policies and organize them into groups based on departments or specific needs. It simplifies access management for both administrators and users. IBM Security Verify Access can be integrated with almost any solution using APIs. The time required for integration depends on whether the solution is out of the box or custom. Out-of-the-box solutions can be integrated quickly, typically within a few days or hours, while custom solutions may require additional steps and take longer to integrate.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."

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

"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."

"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."

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

"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."

"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."

"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are the pre and post-token generation, and the different Cognito triggers. It has lots of functionality and flexibility."

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"From the integration point of view, it supports SAML, OIDC, and OAuth. For legacy applications that don't have support for SAML and other new protocols, it provides single sign-on access to end-users. From the integration compatibility point of view, it is highly capable."

"It's a good solution for identification and access management."

"I have found this solution to be really practical and when a user wants to log in, it is effortless and runs smooth."

"The solution has powerful authentification and authorization. It offers a good way to increase security."

"Its stability and UI are most valuable."

"The tool provides a password vault, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication. It offers various authentication methods like fingerprint integration, one-time passwords, or tokens sent via email or SMS. This ensures secure access to your accounts by providing multiple authentication options."

"The most valuable feature of IBM Security Access Manager, at least for my company, is multi-factor authentication. That's the only feature my company is using. The solution works well and has no glitches. IBM Security Access Manager is a very good solution, so my company is still using it."

Cons

"There is room for improvement in Amazon Cognito."

"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."

"Cognito triggers can improve by providing more direct use cases rather than giving a white paper. A white paper is not at all interesting, it has too many details. It would be a benefit to provide a smaller document that is summarized. The smaller version would bring microdata, macro data is not helpful."

"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."

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

"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."

"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."

"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."

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"The solution could be classified as a hilt system. There are a lot of resources being used and it is suitable for very large enterprises or the public sector."

"They can improve the single sign-on configuration for OIDC and OAuth. That is not very mature in this product, and they can improve it in this particular area. OIDC is a third-party integration that we do with the cloud platforms, and OAuth is an authorization mechanism for allowing a user having an account with Google or any other provider to access an application. Organizations these days are looking for just-in-time provisioning use cases, but IBM Security Access Manager is not very mature for such use cases. There are only a few applications that can be integrated, and this is where this product is lagging. However, in terms of configuration and single sign-on mechanisms, it is a great product."

"Configuration could be simplified for the end-user."

"There are a lot of areas that can be improved, but the main area is the lack of customization. You cannot easily customize anything in the product. It is not easy to tweak the functionality. It is challenging to change the out-of-the-box functionality."

"The user interface for users and administrators could be improved to make it easier. Automating some functions could also be beneficial."

"The user interface needs to be simplified, it's complex and not user-friendly."

"What we'd like improved in IBM Security Access Manager is its onboarding process as it's complex, particularly when onboarding new applications. We need to be very, very careful during the onboarding. We have no issues with IBM Security Access Manager because the solution works fine, apart from the onboarding process and IBM's involvement in onboarding issues. If we need support related to the onboarding, we've noticed a pattern where support isn't available, or they don't have much experience, or we're not getting a response from them. We're facing the same issue with IBM Guardium. As we're just focusing on the multi-factor authentication feature of IBM Security Access Manager and we didn't explore any other features, we don't have additional features to suggest for the next release of the solution, but we're in discussion about exploring ID management and access management features, but those are just possibilities because right now, we're focused on exploring our domain."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."

"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."

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

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

"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 price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."

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

"The license and costs depend on the amount range of users you have. For just approximately 2,000 users, the price is practical and fair. However, when you have 20,000 users, it starts to become really expensive, and the discount per user is not attractive enough to go ahead and purchase."

"It costs about 300K AED for a year. Its pricing is a bit on the higher end, but in comparison to other products in the market, its price is still better. There are lots of other products that are very costly."

"The product is not expensive. It depends on the number of users."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

24%

Insurance Company

18%

Computer Software Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Cognito?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?

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.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?

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

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What do you like most about IBM Security Access Manager?

The tool provides a password vault, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication. It offers various authentication methods like fingerprint integration, one-time passwords, or tokens sent via ema...

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What needs improvement with IBM Security Access Manager?

The user interface for users and administrators could be improved to make it easier. Automating some functions could also be beneficial.

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What advice do you have for others considering IBM Security Access Manager?

I rate the product an eight out of ten.

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Overview

Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data in the AWS Cloud, such as app preferences or game state, without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. This means you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.

IBM Security Verify Access is a complete authorization and network security policy management solution. It provides end-to-end protection of resources over geographically dispersed intranets and extranets.Provides a wide range of built-in authenticators and supports external authenticators.Provides permit and deny decisions for protected resources requests in the secure domain through the authorization API.Manages secure access to private internal network-based resources by using the public Internet's broad connectivity and ease of use with a corporate firewall system.

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