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PROS

Amazon Cognito offers competitive pricing and efficient federation features.
It integrates well with other AWS services and supports scalability for increasing usage.
The pre and post-token generation, plus a variety of triggers, provide flexibility and functionality.
Its ease of integration with a wide range of applications, including mobile and web, adds value.
Single sign-on and secure credential storage managed by AWS are highly valuable features.

CONS

Amazon Cognito integration and configuration can be complex, hindering ease of use compared to alternatives like Okta.
The absence of multifactor authentication and advanced user validation methods like biometrics is noticeable.
Improvement is needed in providing more practical use cases for Cognito triggers instead of lengthy white papers.
Customization of JWT and adding data to tokens require complex programming, lacking in user-friendly UI support.
Scalability is limited as moving users between pools or accounts results in identity changes, complicating database management.
 

Amazon Cognito Pros review quotes

Grijesh Maurya - PeerSpot reviewer
Distinguished Engineer & Senior Technical Architect at Pitney Bowes
Apr 29, 2022
The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive.
Erik Aceiro - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect III at Raizen
Dec 19, 2022
The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services.
Alexander Sabogal - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Technology Officer at Vettica
Nov 30, 2022
This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it.
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Arif Azim - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 21, 2022
The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are the pre and post-token generation, and the different Cognito triggers. It has lots of functionality and flexibility.
Parth Solanki - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at Quicklead.io
Dec 29, 2022
The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation.
MOMEN ABDELSADEK - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ict specialist at Information& eGov Authority
Jan 6, 2023
Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time.
Vladimir Shilov - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps at Ciklum ApS
May 23, 2023
One of the key benefits of this software is its ease of integration with a wide range of applications, including mobile apps and web applications. This simplifies the process of integration, and it can be seamlessly incorporated with Azure, Kubernetes, and other software systems.
SS
CEO & Chief Architect at MBrain Technologies
Nov 23, 2023
They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication.
Andre Kapp - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Developer at Mama Money Pty
Jan 26, 2024
The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement.
Julius Mboya - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited
May 2, 2024
The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication.
 

Amazon Cognito Cons review quotes

Grijesh Maurya - PeerSpot reviewer
Distinguished Engineer & Senior Technical Architect at Pitney Bowes
Apr 29, 2022
The ease and simplicity of integration could be improved when using this solution. When using Okta, scope is a single endpoint with a parameter as a scope. In the Cognito for each scope, there is a separate endpoint.
Erik Aceiro - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect III at Raizen
Dec 19, 2022
The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent.
Alexander Sabogal - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Technology Officer at Vettica
Nov 30, 2022
In a future release, we would like to have different methods to validate the characteristic of a user. For example, we would like to use biometric data to analyze the behavior of users.
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Arif Azim - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 21, 2022
Cognito triggers can improve by providing more direct use cases rather than giving a white paper. A white paper is not at all interesting, it has too many details. It would be a benefit to provide a smaller document that is summarized. The smaller version would bring microdata, macro data is not helpful.
Parth Solanki - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at Quicklead.io
Dec 29, 2022
The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems.
MOMEN ABDELSADEK - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ict specialist at Information& eGov Authority
Jan 6, 2023
I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles.
Vladimir Shilov - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps at Ciklum ApS
May 23, 2023
Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration.
SS
CEO & Chief Architect at MBrain Technologies
Nov 23, 2023
Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users.
Andre Kapp - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Developer at Mama Money Pty
Jan 26, 2024
You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that.
Julius Mboya - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited
May 2, 2024
What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM).