We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"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."
"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."
"It has a wide range of MFA options. I prefer "Okta Verify" out of them all."
"The ease of deployment, ease of use, and speed of delivery is what I like about Okta Workforce Identity. It is very easy to use. For a lot of software, you need to be trained extensively and have a very technical background. Okta Workforce Identity is quite simple. You can integrate any software into Okta. They've got a network of 7,000 applications that easily integrate into it."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"The most valuable feature in Okta Workforce Identity is the single sign-on, universal directory, and lifecycle management."
"It's reliable and it does what it is advertised to do."
"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."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"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."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the support system, they are too slow."
"It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive backup."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"The stability could be better."
"There should be automated aggregation and complete classification processes included in it."
"The guest user access could be improved."
"There are some issues with the interface that can be improved."
"The solution's user interface needs to be improved and made easy."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 5th in Access Management with 8 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 3rd in Access Management with 56 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Cognito writes "Good integration with AWS services but not feasible for B2C because MFAs are nonexistent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, ForgeRock and WSO2 Identity Server, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0. See our Amazon Cognito vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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