We performed a comparison between AWS IAM Identity Center and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."
"It offers features that improve our security posture such as multifactor authentication, which is the second layer of protection that is used when we log into the cloud."
"The self-password reset if it's enabled and configured properly, really helps a company be able to reset rather than getting IT involved."
"The most valuable feature is the authentication platform."
"My two preferred features are conditional access and privileged identity management."
"This solution is less time-consuming. We don't have to hire as many resources to give permissions to a particular user or group for any application."
"The solution scales well."
"Single sign-on is the reason we use AD."
"The solution adds an extra layer of security."
"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."
"When it comes to Azure, creating certain things or getting different resources isn't very clear. You need a certain level of knowledge of the system. It could be a little bit more friendly so that some of the things can be done easily, but after everything is created, it's easy to use."
"It doesn't function the same way as an Active Directory inside of an infrastructure, that is, a physical infrastructure. In the cloud, it is all flat. That's one of the disadvantages."
"From time to time it takes a little bit of time to replicate, with some of the applications—something like five to 10 minutes. I know that the design is not supposed to enable real-time replication with some of the applications. But, as an administrator, I would like to run a specific change or modification in Azure Active Directory and see it replicated almost immediately."
"I faced difficulties from Micorosft's end and during the transition from Microsoft Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. Sometimes, some of Microsoft's documentation could be a little outdated."
"The Cloud Provisioning Agent cannot provision a lot of the information that AD Connect does. For starters, the lightweight version cannot synchronize device information. If you have computers on-premises, the information about them will not be synchronized by the Cloud Provisioning Agent. In addition, if you have a user on the cloud and he changes his password, that information should be written back to the on-premises instance. But that workflow cannot be done with the lightweight agent. It can only be done with the more robust version."
"Technical support could be better."
"Customers should be informed that public review features are not intended for production use."
"I would like to be able to authenticate Wi-Fi users using the Azure ID"
AWS IAM Identity Center is ranked 21st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 1 review while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. AWS IAM Identity Center is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS IAM Identity Center writes "Helps users provide or revoke accesses whenever needed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". AWS IAM Identity Center is most compared with Red Hat Single Sign On, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and PingFederate, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo.
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