Amazon Cognito Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for Authentication and Authorization of the mobile applications, and middleware that we write for our enterprise customers. We also evaluated it for the use-case of Federated Identity integration to other IDP solutions like Microsoft ActiveDirectory, etc. We also use it to enable MFA on a few web apps.

Likelihood to Recommend

<b><u>Well Suited</u></b>

<ol><li> B2C mobile and web apps with a high number of users. </li><li> Cheaper and cost-effective. </li><li> If the other pieces of the infra are already using AWS services like Lambda, S3, Pinpoint, etc. </li></ol><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;"><b>Not Suited For:</b>

</span><ol><li><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;"> Advanced use-cases (Biometrics based authentication) Email, and other MFA channels. </span></li><li><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;"> For any use-cases needing SCIM. </span></li><li><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;"> Customized flows of SSO, and MFA will need a layer on Lambda and other AWS services.</span></li></ol><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px; word-spacing: -0.75px;">

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Amazon Cognito for about the last 3 years now and it has been a really good experience. The onboarding although needs a little bit of help as there was little documentation that would help to install and maintain the application for what we were wanting it to. But with support's help, we were able to jump in and get what we were looking for and we have been satisfied with it since the implementation was completed.

Likelihood to Recommend

With Amazon's support, we were able to complete what we were looking to accomplish. If you have an administrator that has been working in the AWS environment for a while they can assist with some of your questions. But save yourself time and open up a ticket with support and just get a tech on the line and have them walk you through the steps and you will be able to complete all the setup with minimal issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Cognito is a life-saving service allowing role-based access control and acting as an external identity provider. AWS Cognito is also meant temporary access to AWS storage or analytics services like s3 for external users. The use of lambda for any automation along with Amazon Cognito coordinating with AWS Pinpoint to supply you with analytics on client behavior is a bonus.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking to deploy a web application without the need of integrating without an identity provider and still want access control, 2-factor authentication or want social identity federation. A solution that can be scalable and secure if you are unable to predict the response from the customers at the point in time. If you want to automate analytics after a user authenticates, then Amazon Cognito is suitable.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Cognito provides the means to easily view all web services that require authentication or user registrations to manage. We have been using it for the last two years to manage, develop and add web services, web and mobile applications as well as login modules and registrations protected thanks to its extensive database that ensures passwords are stored securely. Amazon Cognito can integrate with alternative identity providers like Facebook, works great with other AWS services, SNS for texting, SES for email, and API Gateway for authentication.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Cognito is ideal for developers looking to create a secure login experience for their own apps, and set up authentication in their app very quickly and easily.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Cognito is a verified authentication service to ensure a secure log in experience for everyone. With the authenticator, we can ensure all data accessed after being verified is safe and in good hands. This is especially valuable in a remote environment with many of our employees logging in from different places around the globe.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Cognito is a good solution for businesses looking to secure their login process across remote / global entities. It provides an added verification step to ensure data is protected from bad actors or unauthorized users looking to steal your data. This wouldn't be a necessary product for someone who doesn't store sensitive data or information.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Cognito to simplify and forget to build from scratch the sign-in and log-in process in our applications. With Amazon Cognito you do not need to build the login process, sign-in mechanism, and all that stuff that is always the same one application after another, these constructs are already there to be used.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a simple app or any app that needs to manage users; you can delegate this to Amazon Cognito. You don't need to waste time thinking and building the sign-in process, where to store users, groups, credentials, etc. Cognito does all that for you, and if you want to go further you can also use Federate Services.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Cognito is a great authentication solution for web applications and mobile applications. Amazon Cognito offers a secure login and secure user directory using this. Amazon Cognito can be useful for businesses or organizations, working on applications that need a simple yet secure authentication for the web and mobile applications.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Cognito is a very useful authentication solution for web applications along with mobile applications. It is easy to use and integrate.

It can be useful for scenarios like:

- Website/Application that requires for its users with email or social sign-in (Like Sign In with Facebook or Google).

- It is also has a customizable login screen, so some customization can be done to it easily.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With Amazon Cognito, I built an entire user database - I also use it to develop small interactive web pages for my clients. AWS helps with the cloud requirements for our platforms and Amazon Cognito helps implement authentication/sign-ups to the platforms we use.

Likelihood to Recommend

For startups, this solution is highly expensive but it is one of the most secure platforms out there. A technical person can easily understand the nuances and implement it to make the platforms more interactive. If the platform can be used without internet access or if offline sync is available - it'll make an even better solution.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is used only by our tech department, but we are looking at doing a company-wide rollout as we are able to streamline the implementation. All staff in our company have a company-issued google account, so having a secure sign-in is a no-brainer. It also requires fewer accounts to manage on the employees' end.

Likelihood to Recommend

For the cost (it's very cheap!) this product is a no-brainer. It allows us to add Google Sign in to some of our most used company apps. It has a quick learning curve (for setup AND use). Connects to the Amazon servers quickly for authentication and the users no longer need to manage so many logins.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We wanted to add user profiles to an existing SaaS app. We wanted all of the things that folks dream of, of course: It should be quick to implement, it should be stable and secure, and it should integrate well with our other services, and it should be extensible. Cognito turned out to be a dream. We used it to build the initial login page (supporting password auth and well as OAuth), and it handled all of that complexity for us very easily. We wanted users to be able to fill out "profile pages," and Cognito came built-in with extensible profile fields that we could populate without needing to add additional services, and we wanted to grant users access to some of our AWS microservices, and this was a very easy configuration in AWS, again without the need for any additional components. Amazon Cognito provided a complete Login and User Profile solution for our SaaS app.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>If you're already using AWS, there's no reason why you should implement your own password authentication or OAuth flows when you can use Cognito instead. It solves that work for you astoundingly well. You might be tempted by a tool like Okta for OAuth flows, but unless you already have a hard dependency on it then you should go with Cognito instead. It's much lighter weight, and it's much more pleasant to extend it with lambdas. </div><div>

</div><div>If you don't have any AWS in your stack, or it's very very important to you to stay platform-independent for your login flows, then those are reasons to avoid Cognito.

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