Amazon Cognito vs. Ory

Amazon Cognito is a developer-centric service that enables secure customer identity and access management (CIAM) for web and mobile applications. It allows developers to implement user sign-up, sign-in, and access control mechanisms swiftly, scaling to millions of users. Cognito supports authentication through social identity providers like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as well as enterprise identity providers via SAML and OIDC.

Ory offers a suite of cloud-native, open-source identity and access management solutions, including: Ory Kratos for configurable user management with features like MFA and social login; Ory Hydra for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authorization; Ory Polis for organization management and enterprise SSO; Ory Keto for a granular authorization system based on Google Zanzibar; Ory Oathkeeper, an identity and access proxy that enforces a Zero Trust security model; and Ory Talos to Transform API keys into dynamic controls for the agentic era .