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AWS Identity and Access Management vs Azure Resource Manager comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

AWS Identity and Access Man...
Ranking in Cloud Resource Access Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Identity Management (IM) (8th)
Azure Resource Manager
Ranking in Cloud Resource Access Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Resource Access Management category, the mindshare of AWS Identity and Access Management is 8.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Resource Manager is 16.8%, down from 25.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Resource Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Resource Manager16.8%
AWS Identity and Access Management8.1%
Other75.1%
Cloud Resource Access Management
 

Featured Reviews

SumitMundik - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Admin Systems at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
IAM improves cloud security management with hybrid network capabilities and global role access
In AWS Identity and Access Management solutions, CloudFormation tools are used to create templates. Having predefined templates available from the AWS team would be beneficial. Currently, security teams work on policies and scripts for creating generic AWS Identity and Access Management roles. If AWS could provide an option to automatically create templates based on desired access requirements, it would be extremely beneficial, especially for documentation and troubleshooting purposes. Storage gateway creation has limitations, allowing maximum of 50 SMB file shares per gateway. While it is costly to access S3 buckets via AWS Identity and Access Management role through storage gateway, companies invest in this for enhanced data security, particularly in financial sectors where data integrity is crucial. There is an ongoing issue where files are sometimes sent twice to S3 buckets, despite MoveIt logs showing single transmission. As a workaround, Lambda functions are implemented with a five-minute delay before processing files to downstream applications.
MohammedAbdulAleem - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom
Provides unified resource visibility and supports compliance requirements
Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration. For example, if I have a cloud management portal from a private cloud provider such as Morpheus from HPE or other private cloud portals, and Azure Resource Manager could integrate with other clouds to give us unified resource utilization or management, that would be really good. Currently, it supports only Microsoft to Microsoft backend and does not support heterogeneous environments; it only supports homogeneous ones. Looking towards the future, I would like to see additional features or improvements in Azure Resource Manager because nowadays companies are going with a multi-cloud model. I am looking for unification of other clouds inside Azure Resource Manager.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"AWS Identity and Access Management has an intuitive user interface that is simple to use."
"From my experience, AWS Identity and Access Management is a strong solution."
"The most beneficial aspect of AWS Identity and Access Management is the ability to manage security."
"AWS IAM is beneficial as it provides standard access and identity management policies and roles for monitoring and logging."
"I rate AWS Identity and Access Management ten out of ten."
"Identity and Access Management allows organizing policy users into groups and defining policies and roles."
"AWS Identity and Access Management allows for creating, modifying, and deleting users or integrating with directories."
"Constructing permissions is easy and very robust; you have a lot of flexibility with IAM permissions, how you can define them, using wildcards, and you can have explicit deny, explicit allow, and different conditions that certain conditions have to be met that this IAM policy will be executed or respected."
"The solution is user friendly and it's easy to manage reserve incentives and to automate resources."
"My experience with Azure Resource Manager is fantastic; it provides me with a complete landscape of Azure Stack Hub, giving me complete visibility into compute, network, storage, security, and consumed IPs, all of which I can visualize."
"On the management side, Azure Resource Manager helps with things like team management. It also helps on the expert side. It helps us manage projects and services centrally, and it's very useful."
"The Azure Resource Manager is complete, where we can manage all the resources."
"Azure Resource Manager's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent."
"Azure Resource Manager's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent; Azure Stack Hub is very compliant with CSA, Q-Cert, 27107, and 27018, which is fantastic when it comes to data sovereignty and private cloud offering."
"Azure Resource Manager is extremely user-friendly and easy to deploy and understand."
"ARM templates make parameterizing and using variables in your DevOps pipeline easy."
 

Cons

"There is an ongoing issue where files are sometimes sent twice to S3 buckets, despite MoveIt logs showing single transmission."
"There could be improvements in making the command line interface options clearer regarding the purpose of each selection."
"The accessibility and inclusion of more AI features would greatly enhance the program."
"Workload management could be improved by providing temporary access."
"It is sometimes not always clear how to work with it, so this is not necessarily what I appreciate about it, but I think it is a matter of experience because when you have experience, it is quite intuitive."
"The documentation and policies could be more straightforward."
"AWS IAM could be improved by providing a graphical user interface which would simplify permissions management, making it easier for beginners to quickly understand and manage permissions."
"I would like to see scalability improvements in AWS Identity and Access Management, such as better integration with existing systems and applications."
"Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration."
"Unlike Terraform, Azure Resource Manager is hard to maintain and modularize and has room for improvement."
"They should focus more on AI features such as Copilot."
"They have created multiple roles, but I would rather they simplify the roles they already have. The main goal is to work with efficient data. Their support could also be better."
"The latency has room for improvement."
"Some of my customers don't speak English, and sometimes, they need to deal with English support, which is really complicated."
"It would be helpful if they would create a common line within the user interface so that if you want to automate or scale a reserve deployment, it can be done simply."
"Compared to ARM templates, Terraform is often preferred because it is more versatile and user-friendly. With Terraform, you can create a single, generic script that works across multiple cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and even Oracle Cloud. This eliminates the need to write separate scripts for each platform."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We pay $15,000 to $20,000 a month for the service and it is worth the cost."
"The solution is open-source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
19%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AWS Identity and Access Management?
In AWS Identity and Access Management solutions, CloudFormation tools are used to create templates. Having predefined templates available from the AWS team would be beneficial. Currently, security ...
What is your primary use case for AWS Identity and Access Management?
When attempting to access Windows UNC paths from MoveIt, it will request user ID and access. For instance, if ITS-MoveIt is the local user utilized during installation, that particular user should ...
What advice do you have for others considering AWS Identity and Access Management?
The AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer is not utilized in our implementation. The policy simulator feature is also not being used. Information about the pricing aspect of AWS Identi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Resource Manager?
About the pricing, it is expensive. Maintaining Azure Stack Hub is not easy because it is expensive, though it depends on customer to customer. If the customer is looking for a secure, compliant cl...
What needs improvement with Azure Resource Manager?
Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration. For example, if I have a cloud management portal from a private cloud provider such as Mor...
What is your primary use case for Azure Resource Manager?
In dealing with something like Site Recovery or Azure Bastion or Azure AI Foundry, we are having a very minimal type of implementation that is only four nodes. Microsoft Azure Resource Manager is b...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

1. Amazon.com2. Adobe3. Accenture4. AT&T5. Bank of America6. Cisco Systems7. Coca-Cola8. Dell Technologies9. Equinix10. GE Healthcare11. Google12. Hewlett Packard Enterprise13. IBM14. Intel15. JPMorgan Chase16. Kroger17. LinkedIn18. Lockheed Martin19. Mastercard20. Microsoft21. Netflix22. Nike23. Oracle24. PayPal25. PwC26. SAP27. Siemens28. Spotify29. Tesla30. Toyota31. Visa32. Walmart33. World Bank
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