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Amazon Cognito vs Auth0

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Overview

Auth0
Auth0
Stacks1.3K
Followers2.1K
Votes215
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito
Stacks624
Followers917
Votes34

Amazon Cognito vs Auth0: What are the differences?

Amazon Cognito and Auth0 are two popular identity management solutions. These services offer authentication, authorization, and user management capabilities for web and mobile applications. Here are the key differences between Amazon Cognito and Auth0:

  1. Pricing Model: A major difference between Amazon Cognito and Auth0 lies in their pricing models. Amazon Cognito offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you only pay for the active users in your pool and the resources consumed. On the other hand, Auth0 provides a tiered pricing structure based on the number of active users and the features required. This difference in pricing models can impact the cost of using these services, depending on the specific requirements and usage patterns of your application.

  2. Integration with AWS Services: Amazon Cognito is tightly integrated with other AWS services, such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon S3. This allows for seamless integration and interaction between these services, making it easier to build a serverless application stack using AWS resources. Auth0, on the other hand, is a standalone service that can be integrated with various platforms and technologies, including AWS, but does not have the same level of native integration with AWS services.

  3. Customizability and Extensibility: Auth0 offers a high degree of customizability and extensibility through its rules engine, allowing developers to implement custom logic and workflows during the authentication process. It provides a flexible architecture to support complex authentication scenarios and allows for easy integration with external identity providers. Amazon Cognito also offers some customization options, but its extensibility is more limited compared to Auth0.

  4. User Management Capabilities: When it comes to user management capabilities, Auth0 provides a more comprehensive set of features out-of-the-box. It offers features like user registration, profile management, password reset, and multi-factor authentication. Amazon Cognito also provides basic user management features but may require additional customization or integration with other AWS services for advanced functionality.

  5. Scalability and Availability: Both Amazon Cognito and Auth0 are designed to be highly scalable and offer high availability. However, as Amazon Cognito is part of the AWS ecosystem, it benefits from the scale and reliability of AWS infrastructure. It provides global availability and automatically handles the scaling of resources based on demand, making it suitable for applications with high user traffic and stringent availability requirements.

  6. Vendor Lock-in: Vendor lock-in is an important consideration when choosing an identity management solution. Auth0 is a standalone service that can be used with various platforms and technologies. This provides more flexibility and reduces the risk of being tied to a specific vendor. On the other hand, Amazon Cognito is tightly integrated with AWS services and relies on the AWS ecosystem. While this offers advantages such as seamless integration with other AWS services, it may also lead to vendor lock-in for applications heavily dependent on AWS resources.

In summary, Amazon Cognito is tightly integrated with the AWS ecosystem, providing scalable user authentication and authorization. Auth0 is a standalone identity platform that offers extensive features and supports multiple platforms, making it a versatile choice for developers looking for cross-platform identity solutions.

Advice on Auth0, Amazon Cognito

Vaibhav
Vaibhav

Jul 17, 2020

Needs advice

Currently, Passport.js repo has 324 open issues, and Jared (the original author) seems to be the one doing most of the work. Also, given that the documentation is not proper. Is it worth using Passport.js?

As of now, StackShare shows it has 29 companies using it. How do you implement auth in your project or your company? Are there any good alternatives to Passport.js? Should I implement auth from scratch?

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Ryan
Ryan

Aug 30, 2021

Needs adviceonFirebase AuthenticationFirebase AuthenticationAuth0Auth0OktaOkta

Hey all, We're currently weighing up the pros & cons of using Firebase Authentication vs something more OTB like Auth0 or Okta to manage end-user access management for a consumer digital content product. From what I understand so far, Something like Firebase Auth would require more dev effort but is likely to cost less overall, whereas OTB, you have a UI-based console which makes config by non-technical business users easier to manage. Does anyone else have any intuitions or experiences they could share on this, please? Thank you!

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Brent
Brent

CEO at DEFY Labs

Mar 7, 2020

Decided

I started our team on Amazon Cognito because I was a Solutions Architect at AWS and found it really easy to follow the tutorials and get a basic app up and running with it.

When our team started working with it, they very quickly became frustrated because of the poor documentation. After 4 days of trying to get all the basic passwordless auth working, our lead engineer made the decision to abandon it and try Auth0... and managed to get everything implemented in 4 hours.

The consensus was that Cognito just isn't mature enough or well-documented, and that the implementation does not cater for real world use cases the way that it should. I believe Amplify has made some of this simpler, but I would still recommend Auth0 as it's been bulletproof for us, and is a sensible price.

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Detailed Comparison

Auth0
Auth0
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.

User and Password support with verification and forgot password email workflow; Painless SAML Auth with Enterprises; Integration with 20+ Social Providers; SDKs for all platforms mobile and web; Token-based authentication for APIs
Manage Unique Identities;Work Offline;Store and Sync across Devices;Seamless Guest Access;Safeguard AWS Credentials;Control Access to AWS Resources
Statistics
Stacks
1.3K
Stacks
624
Followers
2.1K
Followers
917
Votes
215
Votes
34
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 70
    JSON web token
  • 31
    Integration with 20+ Social Providers
  • 20
    SDKs
  • 20
    It's a universal solution
  • 15
    Amazing Documentation
Cons
  • 15
    Pricing too high (Developer Pro)
  • 7
    Poor support
  • 4
    Status page not reflect actual status
  • 4
    Rapidly changing API
Pros
  • 14
    Backed by Amazon
  • 7
    Manage Unique Identities
  • 4
    Work Offline
  • 3
    MFA
  • 2
    Store and Sync
Cons
  • 4
    Massive Pain to get working
  • 3
    Documentation often out of date
  • 2
    Login-UI sparsely customizable (e.g. no translation)
  • 1
    Docs are vast but mostly useless
  • 1
    Different Language SDKs not compatible
Integrations
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Parse
Parse
Firebase
Firebase
Ruby
Ruby
PHP
PHP
Laravel
Laravel
Python
Python
Java
Java
Spring
Spring
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Auth0, Amazon Cognito?

Stormpath

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Keycloak

Keycloak

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

Devise

Devise

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

Firebase Authentication

Firebase Authentication

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,

WorkOS

WorkOS

Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

OAuth.io

OAuth.io

OAuth is a protocol that aimed to provide a single secure recipe to manage authorizations. It is now used by almost every web application. However, 30+ different implementations coexist. OAuth.io fixes this massive problem by acting as a universal adapter, thanks to a robust API. With OAuth.io integrating OAuth takes minutes instead of hours or days.

OmniAuth

OmniAuth

OmniAuth is a Ruby authentication framework aimed to abstract away the difficulties of working with various types of authentication providers. It is meant to be hooked up to just about any system, from social networks to enterprise systems to simple username and password authentication.

ORY Hydra

ORY Hydra

It is a self-managed server that secures access to your applications and APIs with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. It is OpenID Connect Certified and optimized for latency, high throughput, and low resource consumption.

Kinde

Kinde

Simple, powerful authentication that you can integrate in minutes. Free your users from passwords with secure and frictionless one click sign up and sign in. Built from the ground up using the best in class security protocols available today.

Satellizer

Satellizer

Satellizer is a simple to use, end-to-end, token-based authentication module for AngularJS with built-in support for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter authentication providers, plus Email and Password sign-in method. You are not limited to the sign-in options above, in fact you can add any OAuth 1.0 or OAuth 2.0 provider by passing provider-specific information during the configuration step.

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