Amazon Cognito vs OneLogin by One Identity comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and One Identity are both solutions in the Access Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.6, while One Identity is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.3% mindshare in AM, compared to One Identity’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of One Identity users who would recommend it.

Amazon Cognito

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

OneLogin by One Identity and Amazon Cognito compete in the access management category. Amazon Cognito appears to have an edge in terms of integration with AWS, which provides flexibility and scalability, especially for small projects.

Features: OneLogin provides single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and a centralized access management pane. It is user-friendly, efficient for onboarding and access management, and integrates with Active Directory. Amazon Cognito integrates seamlessly with AWS services, offers scalable user management, and supports reliable authentication methods. It is ideal for projects needing flexibility.

Room for Improvement: OneLogin could enhance connector availability, refine SmartFactor Authentication reporting, and improve offboarding efficiency and downtime management. Post-acquisition support by One Identity needs improvement. Amazon Cognito requires better documentation, a simplified UI for user management, enhanced multifactor authentication support, and a more adaptable pricing structure.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both solutions are primarily deployed on public cloud platforms, though OneLogin offers private cloud options. While both have generally well-regarded customer service, OneLogin's support has challenges post-acquisition. Cognito benefits from AWS's reliable infrastructure but could enhance deployment experience with improved documentation.

Pricing and ROI: OneLogin provides competitive pricing with strong ROI in IT efficiency and productivity but faces increased prices recently impacting affordability. Amazon Cognito's scalable pricing suits various needs with a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model, though smaller organizations may find it expensive. Extended functionalities with Cognito lead to higher costs, affecting overall ROI perception.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito

Ranking in Access Management

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OneLogin by One Identity

Ranking in Access Management

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (9th), User Provisioning Software (7th), Identity Management (IM) (11th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 6.3%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneLogin by One Identity is 2.1%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Access Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OneLogin by One Identity	2.1%
Amazon Cognito	6.3%
Other	91.6%

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Featured Reviews

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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Ben Ruset

Senior Director of Infrastructure at Whip Media

Streamlines access management with top-notch support, and a user-friendly interface, making it a highly effective solution for businesses of all sizes

During my evaluation of various products, one standout feature of OneLogin that impressed me was their mobile app for authentication through push notifications. Unlike traditional methods involving rotating codes, the OneLogin app simplifies the process by sending a push notification asking if the login attempt is legitimate. If confirmed, the login proceeds seamlessly. The primary benefit is its user-friendly interface, making it particularly accessible for non-technical users. One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance. Their sales team has also been highly responsive and helpful in connecting me with necessary resources, although we haven't faced any major challenges.

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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

"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."

"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 is quite valuable is that we can outsource storage of the credentials to AWS, and they manage it quite securely."

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

"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."

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

"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."

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"It's super useful to have a single pane of glass when it comes to access management."

"Ease of integration with AD."

"The directory integration and SCIM provisioning are probably the best features compared to competitors."

"When it comes to access management, the solution's single pane of glass is extremely important. The single pane of glass for access management enables collaborative work between IT and security. We have access to certain applications that require device trust. Based on the role, we can access those applications through OneLogin Desktop."

"The solution allows the user to search logs based on a specific time."

"One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance."

"The single sign-on and the fact that we can integrate everything in one place and control from there were valuable features of this solution."

"Documentation."

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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."

"There is room for improvement in Amazon Cognito."

"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."

"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 MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."

"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."

"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."

"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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"I would like better reporting from SmartFactor Authentication when a user is not able to sign in due to a new location, new IP, new device, et cetera."

"The solution keeps going down for many hours, which impacts the entire company. You can't access any applications. OneLogin Desktop has a huge problem where it locks your computers and you need to reset the whole computer, which is pretty insane."

"We've been experiencing some pain points since the acquisition. For example, there have been some outages we didn't see previously, which are a big topic with my executive team. You have hundreds of applications relying on this service for login. If the service is unavailable, nobody can log into these applications."

"The tool must be made more robust."

"They have downtime twice a year or once in six months. During the downtime, the SSO page did not come up. When users wanted to get to their email, they were redirected to the OneLogin page, but the page did not come up, and MFA and logins failed. It completely crippled us."

"While I initially used OneLogin's desktop feature to extend SSO, I discontinued it two years ago due to limitations."

"The uptime has not been great recently, with some outages lasting six, seven, or eight hours."

"OneLogin offers a Virtual LDAP feature that we utilize, although it differs slightly from traditional LDAP servers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We were happy with the price we got when we signed up, but I don't know what will happen when the time comes to renew because it is a different company now. We haven't seen any pricing models or had that discussion yet. My renewal is a year and a half away. It's worth what we're paying for it. There's no way we could provide the level of service for cheaper or try to do the same in-house."

"The price of the licensing is fine."

"The pricing and licensing are reasonable. It is much cheaper than other products."

"While I wish OneLogin's pricing was more affordable, their licensing model, which is based on per user, is acceptable."

"It was cheap in the beginning, and then it became very expensive. We were initially charged $2 per user per month, which was fine, but by the second year, they increased it to $5 per user. That became very expensive for us because we had about 1,500 users. At $2 per user, it comes out to be $3,000 a month, which is $36,000 a year. If we move to $5 per user, it comes out to be $7,500 a month. That made its cost so high. That is why we removed the product because the cost was high."

"The pricing for OneLogin seems to be okay. The pricing and licensing are affordable. If you'd consider OneLogin to be expensive, it's worth it."

"Surprisingly expensive given the price of on-premise solutions."

"OneLogin's pricing, from the perspective of the education sector, seems quite reasonable for the value it delivers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	8

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 OneLogin by One Identity?

OneLogin is efficient.

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What needs improvement with OneLogin by One Identity?

There have been some outages over the years. The uptime has not been great recently, with some outages lasting six, seven, or eight hours. Improvement in the stability of the infrastructure would b...

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What is your primary use case for OneLogin by One Identity?

We use OneLogin by One Identity to provide SAML authentication and single sign-on for all of our SaaS apps.

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Also Known As

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OneLogin, OneLogin Workforce Identity

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

OneLogin by One Identity is a cloud-based access management solution for the modern enterprise. It delivers secure access for every user, every app and every device to meet an organization’s Workforce and Customer and Identity and Access Management (CIAM) needs.

OneLogin provides secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication (supporting a wide array of passwordless authentication factors), adaptive authentication, desktop-level MFA, directory integration with AD, LDAP, G Suite and other external directories, identity lifecycle management and much more. OneLogin advanced authentication capabilities provide multi-layer, context aware and risk-based protection, minimizing the most common attacks and resulting in increased security, a frictionless user experience, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Furthermore, OneLogin’s user-friendly interface and streamlined design make it easy for end users and IT administrators to navigate the platform and remain productive.

One Identity

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

OneLogin has thousands of customers across multiple industries and from around the globe such as Uber, Airbnb, Noom, Petco, Sony, Lucky Brand, Tesco, Airbus, Japan Airlines, Aetna, Compass, Kaplan, Susan G. Komen, AAA and PennyMac.

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