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Amazon Cognito vs. Microsoft Entra External ID

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Cognito

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Cognito is a mobile identity product that allows users to add user sign-up and sign-in to mobile and web apps, and authenticate users through social identity providers.

    $0.01

    Per MAU

    Microsoft Entra External ID

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs.

    $0

    per month per active users

    Pricing
    Amazon CognitoMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $0.01
    Per MAU
    Premium P1 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
    $0.00325
    per month per active users
    Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
    $0.01625
    per month per active users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon CognitoMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon CognitoMicrosoft Entra External ID
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Entra External ID
    Microsoft Entra has much more advanced features than Amazon Cognito. The access permission feature, mfa, data protection is top notch. Amazon Cognito does offer MFA but the security access feature is not very great. The Microsoft Entra offers a wide selection of access …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon CognitoMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)