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IAM Health Cloud vs Microsoft Entra ID 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

IAM Health Cloud
Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
24th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Entra ID
Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
277
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (2nd), Authentication Systems (1st), Identity Management (IM) (2nd), Access Management (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) category, the mindshare of IAM Health Cloud is 0.3%. The mindshare of Microsoft Entra ID is 17.3%, down from 26.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Entra ID17.3%
IAM Health Cloud0.3%
Other82.4%
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

George Onalo - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise DevOps Lead at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Automating least-privilege audits has accelerated migrations but needs stronger Terraform and CI/CD support
The platform can be vastly improved by introducing native, 'Terraform-aware' guardrails. Currently, the platform's automated remediation mechanisms modify live policies directly in the AWS console, which immediately causes configuration drift inside our declarative Terraform state files. The next release should output recommended policy fixes directly as valid Terraform HCL code snippets or automated GitHub Pull Requests.Additionally, expanding its graph-based analysis to support multi-cloud identity tracking across Microsoft Azure (Entra ID) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) would provide true enterprise-wide utility. Lastly, incorporating smarter alert grouping for identical microservice container task roles would significantly reduce alert fatigue for lean DevOps teams.
Stafin Jacob - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Practice Lead at Invoke
Identity has become our central gatekeeper and has provided secure single sign-on for all users
Microsoft Entra ID can improve by focusing more on new passwordless methods and becoming a primary adopter. One feature we would like to see is the ability to have security questions for password resets. I know the current capability is phasing out, so we do not have an alternative method yet. Customers who already use security questions require a smoother transition for that capability to be available. My experience with the deployment has had some challenges, particularly around the Microsoft MFA campaigns. The hardest part is moving users from a different MFA provider to the Microsoft MFA provider, as it ultimately depends on user activity. In large enterprises with numerous users across various geographies, this transition takes time. If there are ways to exert more control around that process, it would improve the situation.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"IAM Health Cloud has positively impacted my organization by giving us all the required dashboards that we can manage everything from one place."
"By shrinking our IAM audit prep time by 40% and cutting post-migration security rework by up to 70%, the tool is effectively saving my organization 15 to 20 engineering hours per project."
"It has features that have definitely helped to improve our security posture."
"The features I find most valuable are conditional access, privilege management, and dynamic groups."
"From a user experience, it's improved it drastically."
"The solution gives users seamless integration to all these products and streamlines the user experience."
"The feature of Microsoft Entra ID that I appreciate the most is the level of integration that's available in the partner network."
"It's a smooth transition because of Azure AD."
"Overall, we are satisfied with the solution and the features provided."
"Entra ID's ability to sync with the local Active Directory provides redundancy, allowing authentication via cloud features even if the local Active Directory faces issues. The SSO features with app registrations are also crucial, as we use Azure globally, allowing role and permission assignments directly from Entra."
 

Cons

"I choose an eight out of ten because I think this technology world is evolving very rapidly and AI is stepping into the technology."
"While IAM Health Cloud is an exceptional observability engine for AWS, its automated remediation can cause configuration drift if you manage your infrastructure strictly through Terraform."
"They can combine conditional access for user actions and application filtering. Currently, they are separated, and we cannot mix the two. I do not know how it would be possible, but it would be interesting."
"For the end users, it can be confusing if they have worked for another company that had the Authenticator app."
"Some systems do not integrate very well with Azure AD."
"I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution."
"The technical support can be confusing - if you're looking for something very specific, it can be hard to get the right answer or a solution."
"Generally, everything works pretty well, but sometimes, Azure Active Directory has outages on the Microsoft side of things. These outages really have a very big impact on the users, applications, and everything else because they are closely tied to the Azure AD ecosystem. So, whenever there is an outage, it is really difficult because all things start failing. This happens very rarely, but when it happens, there is a big impact."
"Since implementing Microsoft Entra ID, we have not seen major changes, but we are working with Microsoft to examine metrics and build dashboards in Sentinel."
"When implementing for one client, where they had ADFS turned on, we could not ID enough ADFS and when there was no internet connection. This was a Catch-22 for us, and very frustrating."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Licensing is easy."
"Azure AD has four licensing options- Free, Office 365 apps, Premium P1, and Premium P2. The free option has a limited number of identities and features, and the Office 365 version comes included in several Office 365 subscriptions. With the P1 and P2 licenses, we get all the freeware features plus additional security features, but these come at a higher price. The base price for P1 and P2 is $6 and $9 per user per month, respectively."
"The product is relatively affordable, especially compared to Okta, a pricey solution."
"The licensing model is straightforward. I don't think there are any issues with the E3 license or E5 license."
"The licensing model makes it difficult to understand the real cost of the solution, especially because it changes all the time."
"I am not involved in the pricing or licensing, so I can't speak to that."
"Entra ID is not too bad, but Microsoft licensing generally is insane. Most customers normally buy a bundle license with Microsoft 365, E3, or E5. Out of our 2,000 customers, for 99.9% of our customers, the Entra ID license that they are getting through the part of that would be sufficient. There are some more advanced ones that give you a bit more functionality, but we probably have not had a customer for that. We do not even internally use that ourselves. When you buy the Entra ID license on its own, it is probably three or four pounds. You just get it included in the license."
"The pricing is good; it's not cheap but very reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
50%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business89
Midsize Enterprise42
Large Enterprise162
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IAM Health Cloud?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was seamless when procuring through AWS Marketplace. It allows our clients to leverage their existing AWS EDP commitments, drastically cutting...
What needs improvement with IAM Health Cloud?
The platform can be vastly improved by introducing native, 'Terraform-aware' guardrails. Currently, the platform's automated remediation mechanisms modify live policies directly in the AWS console,...
What is your primary use case for IAM Health Cloud?
I started using IAM Health Cloud at the beginning of this year. I integrate it with Control Tower and landing zone setup for customers who want to migrate their workload onto AWS. From a security s...
How does Duo Security compare with Microsoft Authenticator?
We switched to Duo Security for identity verification. We’d been using a competitor but got the chance to evaluate Duo for 30 days, and we could not be happier. Duo Security is easy to configure a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Active Directory?
I would rate the pricing of the product as four out of five. The product is definitely good, and I see it as part of the future roadmap for managing all endpoints.
What needs improvement with Azure Active Directory?
I believe instead of putting everything in a single form under Microsoft Entra ID, it would be best for Microsoft to segregate these features. For example, if someone wants to design the Conditiona...
 

Also Known As

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Azure AD, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Authenticator
 

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Sample Customers

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Microsoft Entre ID is trusted by companies of all sizes and industries including Walmart, Zscaler, Uniper, Amtrak, monday.com, and more.
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