Amazon Cognito vs Cloudflare One comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloudflare are both solutions in the Access Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.8, while Cloudflare is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.6% mindshare in AM, compared to Cloudflare’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Cloudflare users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 16, 2025

Cloudflare One and Amazon Cognito compete in the cloud services domain. Amazon Cognito has a slight advantage due to its strong identity verification features, while some may favor Cloudflare One for its extensive security infrastructure.

Features: Cloudflare One offers network security, Zero Trust capabilities, and integrated DDoS protection. Amazon Cognito is known for user identity management, multi-factor authentication, and seamless integration with AWS services.

Room for Improvement: Cloudflare One could benefit from improved initial configuration processes and enhanced integration with a wider array of services. A more intuitive UI would also enhance its user experience. In contrast, Amazon Cognito can improve by expanding its features for complex identity scenarios, enhancing documentation for easier usability, and offering more competitive pricing tiers for small businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon Cognito's deployment is simple, especially within the AWS ecosystem, and comes with effective support options. Cloudflare One offers a robust deployment model but may require more initial setup effort. Both provide reliable customer service, though Cloudflare requires more initial configuration than Cognito's seamless integration.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudflare One's pricing varies with feature packages, justifying potentially high ROI for secure network management. Amazon Cognito uses scalable pricing linked to user volume, offering cost-effective scaling for identity services. While Cloudflare One might involve higher initial costs, Amazon Cognito often results in better ROI for businesses focusing on identity management and scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito

Ranking in Access Management

7th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Cloudflare One

Ranking in Access Management

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Email Security (11th), Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (7th), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (7th), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (7th), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (5th), Bot Management (3rd), ZTNA as a Service (3rd), ZTNA (2nd), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (6th), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 6.6%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudflare One is 3.0%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wojciech Doganowski

Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group

International setup localization challenges drive custom development while outsourcing credential management enhances security

We are using it in an international setup where we have multiple services running in multiple countries. Cognito localizes only regarding language, but the service is localized in each country. Cognito has the possibility to render the login screen and all the customer flows related to managing the account. Still, it's useless in an international setup. They are unable to localize these screens, so we had to write our own screens and just use the Cognito API. I hope they will fix this soon because it's useful to rely on already prepared flows for all the account management. As it doesn't work with different languages, rewriting it is quite complicated. Additionally, maybe they could find another step in the price so there is not such a significant jump from the basic to extended functionality. Some flexibility would be helpful.

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Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

The solution enables seamless security management and fosters a learning environment

Feedback could be enhanced. While I work efficiently with Clover as a partner in Mexico City, sometimes the information and requests are easier to manage with more concrete solutions. For the solution stopping us for e-learning, I appreciate the concept yet need more resources or courses in Mexico, preferably in Spanish. Certifications are easy, however, I require more real-world environments and instructors.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."

"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."

"The features most valuable to us are the ability to integrate with various IDPs and the capability to sync with multiple applications."

"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."

"What I find most valuable about Amazon Cognito is the single sign-on feature that provides a token for accessing protected APIs."

"I rate Amazon Cognito nine out of ten."

"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."

"The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."

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"Cloudflare Access is part of the Zero Trust philosophy."

"For Cloudflare Access, I am using the free plan...The most valuable feature is their protection."

"Cloudflare is by far the most effective solution that I have come across."

"Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform removes the risk of exposing the applications to the public."

"Cloudflare DDoS is better than its competitors for its security, deployment, and scalability."

"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable features as almost no effort was needed to learn the configurations. It is also one of the cheapest firewalls available in this category."

"It will take the blow rather than our applications should an attack occur."

"The best feature is rate limiting. If I'm expecting 500 visits per hour, Cloudflare will limit the requests if I suddenly get 50,000."

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Cons

"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."

"Amazon Cognito could be improved by making it easier for us to add more data to the token, allowing customization of JWT."

"The setup and configuration can be complex, especially for advanced use cases."

"Cognito has the possibility to render the login screen and all the customer flows related to managing the account. Still, it's useless in an international setup. They are unable to localize these screens, so we had to write our own screens and just use the Cognito API."

"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."

"There is room for improvement in Amazon Cognito."

"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."

"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."

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"Lacks a VPN feature to provide a secure connection to the data center."

"There are premium tier live service and lower tier live service, so we opted for the lower tier. But there is no medium tier where we pay a little extra and get a bit more service. So if that can be improved."

"Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform needs to improve its documentation. It took time to do the implementation."

"They don't have a person to provide support for customers using the solution under their free plan."

"The pricing is an area that can be improved. Pricing, as far as I recall, was the source of our problems."

"When there are any dynamic changes in complex applications, the tool takes a lot of time, making its analytics-related area a major matter of concern where improvements are needed."

"Our customers no longer use Cloudflare because its service is subpar."

"Operating and tuning the product is difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it."

"The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."

"We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs."

"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."

"The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."

"The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."

"The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."

"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

"The price tag is no longer $200,000, but rather $300,000 to $400,000. It's twice."

"Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform's pricing is good."

"The prices are slightly expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is cheap. The licensing cost is also very low. I rate the cost and pricing a three out of ten."

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no hidden charges apart from the licensing costs of the solution."

"The solution's pricing lacks transparency."

"The solution is not that expensive."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Cognito?

The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?

The basic functionality is reasonably priced, but the extended functionalities, especially the extended security, are quite expensive. There is a significant jump from the basic to the extended fun...

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What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?

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What do you like most about Cloudflare Access?

The tool also offers good scalability, and the dashboard, along with real-time analytics, is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare Access?

The price of Cloudflare Access is the same as compared to Akamai, but I get better performance from Cloudflare. My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the so...

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What needs improvement with Cloudflare Access?

Cloudflare Access has strong integration with Microsoft, among other platforms. However, when it comes to Kaspersky, we have clients who typically encounter challenges. The usual setup involves con...

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Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Gateway, Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform, Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare SASE & SSE Platform

Overview

Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data in the AWS Cloud, such as app preferences or game state, without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. This means you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.

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Cloudflare One is a single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that enables Zero Trust security and any-to-any connectivity across enterprise applications, users, devices, and networks. Cloudflare One helps organizations simplify, modernize, and consolidate their IT architecture by converging security and networking services on our single global network and control plane.

Many organizations start by adopting our Security Service Edge (SSE) services — like ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and DLP — to reduce their attack surface, stop threats like phishing and ransomware, protect data, and apply identity-based Zero Trust verification across web, SaaS, and private app environments. Others prioritize simplifying network connectivity across offices, data centers, and cloud environments with our WANaaS.

Every service is available for customers to run in every location across Cloudflare’s global network, which today spans 330+ cities in 120+ countries, so you can scale connectivity with fast, consistent protections everywhere.

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

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