Amazon Cognito

RATING:

4.4

(5)
Overview

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...

Amazon Cognito Pricing

Pricing is based on number of sync operations.

Starting price: 

$0.02 

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Available

Amazon Cognito managing identities

Amazon Cognito Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

3.5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Amazon Cognito

5 Reviews

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2023

Cognito Review

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.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2023

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

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.

Anonymous

10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed May 2022

Great features for the most competitive MAU price

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.

User Profile

Gianluigi

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

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.

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.

Reason for choosing Amazon Cognito

Cognito is a requirement by our customer.

Irina

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Critical and very powerful

PROS

It’s solid and reliable with vast functionality

CONS

The Amazon interface hasn’t always been the best but they are number one for a reason

5 Reviews