Amazon Cognito 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

Amazon Cognito

4.4

(5)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito is an authentication management solution that helps organizations streamline user sign in, sign up and access to web/mobile applications. The software allows businesses to provide sign-in functionality for multiple applications using various social identity providers like Facebook, Apple and Google and enterprise identity providers such as SAML 2.0, and OpenID Connect.

Amazon Cognito offers white-labelling capabilities, which allow enterprises to personalize the interface using custom colours, logos and themes to establish brand identity with clients. It offers a host of features such as adaptive authentication, role-based permissions, user pool, secure access, credentials management and more. Additionally, it supports compliance with HIPAA, SOC, ISO/IEC, PCI DSS and other regulatory standards.

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Amazon Cognito Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.02

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.02

No plan information available

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Amazon Cognito Features

Popular features found in Authentication
Credential Management
Mobile Authentication
Multi-Factor Authentication
Single Sign On
More features of Amazon Cognito
Access Controls/Permissions
Access Management
Application Access Control
Authentication
Compliance Management
Data Synchronization
HIPAA Compliant
Multiple User Accounts
Password Management
PCI Compliance
Role-Based Permissions
Two-Factor Authentication
User Management

Amazon Cognito User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

40%

60%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.0

Customer support

3.5

Functionality

3.8

Have you used Amazon Cognito and would like to share your experience with others?

Gianluigi M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Easy solution to setup a complete SSO system

We have to setup a SSO system for our customer. Multiple applications needs to login, PHP applications, mobile and SPA applications.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

AWS Cognito is very quick and easy to set up in a basic configuration, allowing you to have a fast and reliable SSO system. with Hosted Login Page option a lot of features, like reset password, registration and email sending, form checks are fully working with just a few clicks.

Cons:

A better error description when something goes wrong during setup. Better documentation with some use cases will be very appreciated.

Reasons for choosing Amazon Cognito

Cognito is a requirement by our customer.

Verified

Reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Cognito Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

User-friendly and is very easy for beginners to navigate through. I like how there's also a lot of options to search for a profile to review their ID and figure out if there's a misalignment that needs to be fixed.

Cons:

With how I've been using it for, I can't think of anything else as it's cons aside from not being able to search for users when there is an extra space in front and end of the info you are trying to query.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Great features for the most competitive MAU price

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

If you evaluate Cognito against other identity management solutions in the industry for the price point and the features provided, Cognito is a winner for normal run of the mill authentication and authorization needs of you web and mobile apps. It has one of the lowest costs per monthly active users and the feature set is fairly good.

Cons:

The features lack when compared to an Okta or similar commercial offerings. This includes non availability of IdP initiated SAML, multi valued attributes, SAML encryption etc. However, this is understandable as the price point is much lower.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

Un gestionnaire d'identité facile à prendre en main mais peu customisable

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Rapide à intégrer, il s'interface facilement à un Amazon API Gateway. Il offre une gestion des utilisateurs et des accès simples, configurable via Terraform et implémente la plupart des flow d'authentification OAUTH 2 connu.

Cons:

Difficilement configurable dans des scénarios plus complexes (silent mode inexistant, invalidation des refresh tokens au moment du rafraîchissement non implémenté...). Relativement cher lorsqu'on veut l'utiliser avec la fédération d'identité.

Irina K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Critical and very powerful