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AWS IAM Identity Center vs Teleport comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

AWS IAM Identity Center
Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (8th)
Teleport
Ranking in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
20th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) category, the mindshare of AWS IAM Identity Center is 1.5%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Teleport is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
AWS IAM Identity Center1.5%
Teleport1.1%
Other97.4%
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Jayesh Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer
Multi-factor authentication and single sign-on enhance user management capabilities
From my perspective, AWS IAM Identity Center is already enhanced and has many capabilities, covering numerous areas. I don't think they need any improvements currently. It works well for us. If users want single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, they can easily opt for AWS IAM Identity Center. I recommend AWS IAM Identity Center as it is beneficial to use. It helps significantly in maintaining users within products. I would rate AWS IAM Identity Center as nine out of ten because we use it as our main primary sign-on feature for our product. Sometimes it experiences lag, but there's always room for improvement, which is why I deducted one point.
Darrell Calderon - PeerSpot reviewer
Leader, Software Engineering at Cisco
Centralized access has strengthened secure troubleshooting and daily operations in restricted environments
Teleport offers excellent proxying capabilities, where you add Teleport SSH proxy, as well as strong support for web applications. Since we are tunneling into a restricted environment, Teleport serves as the one essential point of access, and it is highly secure due to our utilization of Okta and VPN for entering the environment. We use Teleport every day because the environment is restricted, and Teleport is the necessary access point. We are the sole team responsible for the production environment, which is a requirement from our sponsors. It does not take much to maintain it since the maintenance team handles it regularly, ensuring updates occur without disrupting progress. We, as the SRE team, coordinate to ensure Teleport remains operational so that we can troubleshoot and access systems.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."
"Overall, IAM Identity Center is a great service, currently rated at nine out of ten."
"The solution helps us manage access in a time-efficient manner and offers reliable integration for our services, avoiding security breaches and maintaining operational efficiency."
"The most valuable features of AWS IAM Identity Center are role-based permissions and existing permissions templates."
"Its valuable features include granular access control, allowing precise control over who can access specific AWS resources and under what conditions using JSON-based policies."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Identity Center is its ability to centrally create permission templates, known as permission sets, which define AWS IAM roles."
"The most valuable feature is the security configuration ease, which is great for me, especially as a beginner."
"The two most valuable features of IAM Identity Center are the security policy generation and automation in creating credentials."
"The best features include its main capabilities such as collecting actions and showing others what you did on the server, an easy way to connect to any bare-metal servers, and the ability to describe which servers you can use and who can connect to these servers."
"Teleport has replaced earlier methods like a bastion server or a jump server, which required connecting to physical servers."
"Teleport has helped us minimize incidents and maintain our uplinking time and uptime, and our organization's uptime is 99.90%, which is almost 100%."
"I would definitely advise others looking into using Teleport to try it out if they are seeking a tunneling or proxying solution to streamline obtaining access without dealing with DNS or SSH, as it is straightforward to install, can be tested in various environments, and is a truly exceptional product that is easy to use."
"I recommend it for its straightforward setup and strong security features."
 

Cons

"The AWS Identity Center's user interface could be improved to provide a clearer understanding of how the system operates."
"Integrating AWS IAM Identity Center with other applications sometimes presents challenges."
"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."
"The configuration with other tools can be hard."
"For AWS services in general, I had trouble creating an S3 bucket due to a repetitive error message regarding existing names."
"There is a desire to see integration or adoption of time-based user creation features within AWS IAM Identity Center."
"IAM is challenging to manage in complex environments. Enhancements could include automation tools or a centralized dashboard for managing roles and policies across multiple accounts, simplifying the process."
"Greater visualization for security policies would be beneficial."
"I think it should have less complexity to set up on self-hosted because it is still a difficult process and I spend a lot of time using it on self-host."
"Managing 700 to 800 services is not easy."
"I cannot download or share session recordings directly with others, which would be useful for documentation or reviews."
"I cannot download or share session recordings directly with others, which would be useful for documentation or reviews."
"Teleport is simple to use, but sometimes it requires extra research for more unique tasks, which slightly detracts from its overall quality."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is cheap since it is available on the cloud."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS IAM Identity Center?
The product is easy for beginners to learn and use.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS IAM Identity Center?
AWS provides the lowest pricing among other service providers like Azure, Google, Oracle. It is cost-effective, and they use a pay-as-you-go model.
What needs improvement with AWS IAM Identity Center?
The tech support for AWS is time-consuming, as we have experienced this issue. However, I am not aware of many other cases.
What needs improvement with Teleport?
Managing 700 to 800 services is not easy. Every day, we are facing many challenges. For example, sometimes we face multiple incidents on multiple channels. We are also working on how to improve maj...
What is your primary use case for Teleport?
Teleport is for uplinking channels, which means uplink the channel with multiple feeds and the channel uplink for Teleport. In my work with DTH, we are uplinking the channel in the Ku-band. We are ...
What advice do you have for others considering Teleport?
Automation is the best way to improve our system. Automation is a must. We can implement automation in RF and on the compression side. With the help of automation, we can minimize errors or faults ...
 

Also Known As

AWS Single Sign On, AWS SSO
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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