Unlike Amazon Cognito’s narrow appeal, Asgardeo provides a comprehensive, full-featured, identity and access management solution for securing applications in any cloud environment.
Talk to an ExpertWhen enabling access management features for web or mobile apps, Amazon Cognito seems like a convenient choice for organizations that already use AWS. However, it’s only a partial solution that requires additional AWS services and even custom code to meet basic requirements.
To match what Asgardeo delivers, you’ll need services such as Amazon Lambda, Amazon Cloudwatch, and a lot of specialized AWS development resources to integrate them all. This diverts resources from actually developing your app.
On the other hand, Asgardeo is a complete access management solution built for modern applications running in any cloud platform. It has all the features, flexibility, and extensibility you need built-in, so you can focus on what truly matters - developing great web and mobile apps.
Asgardeo’s user store supports a full hierarchical relationship model. This is a fundamental capability needed to support role-based authorization. Implementing capabilities like these requires custom development with Amazon Cognito’s flat user pool model.
Where Amazon Cognito only supports bulk CSV loading, Asgardeo supports multiple methods to bring user identities into the system, including SCIM 2.0, self-sign-up invitation, social account linking, and more. Asgardeo’s flexibility adapts to your needs.
Asgardeo excels with many ways for users to authenticate, including innovative passwordless methods. Amazon Cognito offers only a fraction of these tools and requires additional services to make them work effectively.
Unlike Amazon Cognito, Asgardeo includes a user self-service portal out of the box. This crucial function empowers users to manage their profile information, privacy settings, password, passwordless authentication enrollment, and much more.
Asgardeo collects and manages permissions about how their data will be used, and supports “forget me” features for privacy compliance. For Amazon Cognito customers, these critical features require custom development.
Asgardeo offers flexible logging and monitoring features out of the box to enable auditing, troubleshooting, and more. In the AWS environment, this must be handled by integration with a separate solution, Amazon Lambda.
Amazon Cognito’s built-in options for extensibility are quite limited, primarily focused on user profile design. For the most part, organizations must write complex custom code to achieve their needs. Asgardeo’s extensibility, on the other hand, excels with a wide variety of APIs, SDKs, templated workflows/integrations, and a low-code/visual editor that increases developer productivity.
Asgardeo leads the market in features designed for securing B2B SaaS applications for business customers and partners. For example, organization management, delegated administration, simplified branding, and much more, are included out-of-the-box. Expert reviewers confirm Amazon Cognito is not appropriate for B2B SaaS use cases1.
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| Social login support | |
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| User management including hierarchy and social account linking | |
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| Variety of user authentication and multi-factor authentication options | |
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| User self-service portal included | |
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| Monitoring and logging | |
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| Designed for extensibility | |
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| B2B CIAM capabilities | |
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