Identity as a service (IDaaS) — AWS Cognito & Okta
The security aspects, in particular, the identity management is an important challenge when we develop web or mobile applications. It is difficult and can always be a risk to develop it ourselves. The good news is that there are several identity management providers — Identity-As-A-Service — that resolve these aspects for us. Most are based on two industry standards highly adopted by many digital companies — OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
Many services are part of broader cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services Cognito and Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C. There are also solutions provided by companies that are dedicated only to this type of services, such as Auth0 and Okta. Likewise, Google and Facebook use these standards to offer access to their platforms and other applications.
Before looking at the examples and how to use them, compare one of each group. Although AWS Cognito and Okta offer the same basic services related to identity management, other aspects are very different offers. Prices and characteristics differ significantly.
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