G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon Cognito vs. Symantec IGA

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Cognito

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Symantec IGA

by Broadcom

Overall rating4.13.5
Review count4716
Ease of use8.48.1
Ease of setup8.76.3
Quality of support7.86.8
Meets requirements8.88.1
NPS45.652174-20
Small Business50.0%12.5%
Mid-Market21.7%25.0%
Enterprise28.3%62.5%
Total page views228134
Total LLM citations880134

Amazon Cognito

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.

Pros

  • Customization
  • Automation
  • Customization Options
  • Authentication
  • Security Protection
  • API Integration

Symantec IGA

The Layer7 Identity Suite provides comprehensive identity management and governance capabilities with a simple, intuitive user experience. This user experience can dramatically simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications, resulting in improved productivity and user satisfaction. In addition, the CA Identity Suite performs risk analysis and certification and enables remediation actions in real-time during the access provisioning steps, thereby improving audit performance and risk posture with preventive policy enforcement

Pros