We performed a comparison between AWS Directory Service and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the manageability. Activate Connect makes it easier to assign information and to manage the resources in the network."
"We like the fact that it's got such great redundancy."
"We can provide specific access to people based on what they need from our accounts."
"AWS has eliminated the downtime we waste when our on-premises resources go down."
"AWS Directory Service is secure."
"The support is very good. I would rate the technical support as a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is that because it's all in the cloud, you don't need to manage the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"It is dependent on the evolution of your user base. It depends on usage per user, so the more sign-ins there are, the more expensive it becomes, so it works best for smaller companies from a financial perspective."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It has a wide range of MFA options. I prefer "Okta Verify" out of them all."
"Other than Okta being an easy and awesome integration tool, one of the best features it has is the provisioning and deprovisioning, which makes management way easier. You don't need to be too technical to understand how it works."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"Can be improved by including on-premises access for services through Identity Access Management."
"The group policy can be improved."
"I would like to grant partial access to a table contained in a database without having to provide full access to the whole database."
"I would like to see better integration with other business solutions."
"Some of the security protocols are difficult to understand."
"We had a problem with the schema uploading and setting up the directory when we are migrating our users from on-premises to cloud infrastructure."
"Our only complaint is that you cannot integrate your Exchange server. Or, if you are planning to install an Exchange server on your Amazon EC2 instance, then you need to configure Active Directory on EC2 instance. We would like for this limitation to be lifted."
"AWS Directory Service needs to improve processing."
"We experienced some technical glitches that need to be resolved."
"The initial setup can be complex at first."
"The stability could be better."
"In my country, there's a lot of stealing of mobile phones, and mobile phones are the authentication device through the Okta application. If someone should steal my mobile phone, which is very common in my country, he or she might have access to my company account. That's my concern."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"The product is expensive compared to other tools."
"The solution can be quite expensive."
"We've not had any problems with Okta."
AWS Directory Service is ranked 6th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 56 reviews. AWS Directory Service is rated 8.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Directory Service writes "Extends AD identity and management capabilities to AWS resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". AWS Directory Service is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra External ID, Google Cloud Identity, Omada Identity and SailPoint IdentityIQ, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0. See our AWS Directory Service vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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