AWS Single Sign-On vs. Ory

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is a cloud SSO service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications. It enables users to sign in to a user portal with their existing corporate credentials and access all of their assigned accounts and applications from one place.

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 .