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Amazon Cognito vs SecureAuth Identity Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 11, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito
Ranking in Access Management
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SecureAuth Identity Platform
Ranking in Access Management
21st
Average Rating
5.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (17th), Identity Management (IM) (25th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 3.0%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SecureAuth Identity Platform is 2.3%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Cognito3.0%
SecureAuth Identity Platform2.3%
Other94.7%
Access Management
 

Featured Reviews

BM
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
Custom authentication has enabled secure multi-factor logins and unified access across apps
The features or capabilities of Amazon Cognito that I have found the most valuable so far include its seamless operation and the requirement of fewer integrations from the client side. All the features are there, enabling us to create the users, manage the groups, and manage access. Mostly, the access management is very good in Amazon Cognito, I would say. The benefits and positive impacts that Amazon Cognito has had in my experience include the fact that earlier we needed to implement so many things on behalf of the product itself. Now, the go-to-market strategy requires less than a week to complete integrations of the user flow, specifically mentioning that a basic authentication flow could be completed in a week itself. We don't have to care about how we manage the passwords, how we manage groups, and how we manage access management because all those things are there. It's handy, the documentation is very good, and it is easy to integrate. That's the reason I would say that the impact AWS is building on the product is great.
it_user710517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Identity and Access Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Valuable features include access request and certification. Application integration, reporting, and certification could be improved.
Valuable features include access request, certification, and password management Provide centralised identity-access management Application integration, reporting, and certification could be improved More than three years The product is only as good as the data you use Moving from v7.x to v8.x…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"Amazon Cognito was particularly helpful and clear to use."
"The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"The features most valuable to us are the ability to integrate with various IDPs and the capability to sync with multiple applications."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"I would recommend Cognito for users who are already AWS customers."
"For v8.4, you can work easily if you stick to OOTB, however, should you require customization, then the tool is very flexible using SQL/VB knowledge to extend."
"The self-service functionality for password/access management reduced our need for manual intervention."
 

Cons

"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"There is room for improvement in Amazon Cognito."
"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."
"I would rate its scalability as five out of ten. Moving users between different pools or accounts creates new identities, which means IDs stored in our database must also be changed."
"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."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"Moving from v7.x to v8.x is not easy. You need Courion expertise and skills to upgrade and migrate the data."
"Stability was a constant concern. The application was plagued with memory leak issues from initial installation and through multiple major/minor version upgrades."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."
"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."
"The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."
"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 the solution depends on the number of users using it."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."
"We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Construction Company
12%
Retailer
9%
Educational Organization
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?
I am aware that the pricing of Amazon Cognito is not managed by me directly but is managed by some other teams, specifically the DevOps teams. As far as I know, it is based on how many users we hav...
What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?
I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment. It is very tightly coupled with its own services, so it does not provide customization according to what the client need...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Cognito?
The usual use cases for Amazon Cognito that I have been working with mostly involve working for TLG Apps for three and a half years, where TLG Apps is a FinTech company in the UK. We were working f...
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Also Known As

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SecureAuth Identity Governance, Core Access Assurance Suite, Courion Access Assurance Suite
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Alegent Health, Associated Materials, Brookdale Senior Living, NV Energy, Woodforest Bank, Wellspan Health
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