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Amazon Cognito vs G Suite: What are the differences?
Amazon Cognito: Securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. 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; G Suite: Collaboration and productivity apps for Business. An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more.
Amazon Cognito can be classified as a tool in the "User Management and Authentication" category, while G Suite is grouped under "Productivity Suite".
Some of the features offered by Amazon Cognito are:
- Manage Unique Identities
- Work Offline
- Store and Sync across Devices
On the other hand, G Suite provides the following key features:
- gmail
- google drive
- Calendar
"Backed by Amazon" is the top reason why over 11 developers like Amazon Cognito, while over 610 developers mention "Gmail" as the leading cause for choosing G Suite.
Uber Technologies, Spotify, and Pinterest are some of the popular companies that use G Suite, whereas Amazon Cognito is used by Sendhelper Pte Ltd, Strain Merchant, and ChromaDex. G Suite has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10728 company stacks & 1087 developers stacks; compared to Amazon Cognito, which is listed in 40 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
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.
We are highly dependent on G Suite for all our collaboration and productivity needs, from Gmail and Calendar to Sheets and Docs. While it may not be as robust as Microsoft's offerings in those areas, it's totally cloud-based, we've never had any downtime issues and it integrates well with our other tools like Slack. We write and collaborate on all our specs/PRDs in Docs, share analyses via Sheets and handle our meetings via Calendar. #StackDecisionsLaunch #ProductivitySuite #Collaboration #DocumentCollaboration
Pros of Amazon Cognito
- Backed by Amazon14
- Manage Unique Identities7
- Work Offline4
- MFA3
- Store and Sync2
- Free for first 50000 users1
- It works1
- Integrate with Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, SAML1
- SDKs and code samples1
Pros of G Suite
- Gmail609
- Google docs447
- Calendar365
- Great for startups284
- Easy to work230
- Document management & workflow115
- Very easy to share110
- No brainer80
- Google groups59
- Google scripts & api59
- Google drive22
- Popular16
- No spam, phishing protection13
- Easy12
- Google Spreadsheets12
- Cloud based and collaboration10
- Simple and fast document creation collaboration7
- Best Cloud environment ever6
- Google maps api5
- Geolocation3
- Google-powered Search in Gmail3
- Awesome Collaboration Tools2
- Single sign-on1
- music1
- Simple1
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Cons of Amazon Cognito
- Massive Pain to get working4
- Documentation often out of date3
- Login-UI sparsely customizable (e.g. no translation)2
- Docs are vast but mostly useless1
- MFA: there is no "forget device" function1
- Difficult to customize (basic-pack is more than humble)1
- Lacks many basic features1
- There is no "Logout" method in the API1
- Different Language SDKs not compatible1
- No recovery codes for MFA1
- Hard to find expiration times for tokens/codes1
- Only paid support1
Cons of G Suite
- Starting to get pricey6
- Good luck changing domains4
- Lesser fonts and styling available in mail compose1
- Long emails get truncated1