Head to head
Azure Database for PostgreSQL vs Amazon Cognito
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
50/100Higher score | 45/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #9 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 72 | 79 |
| AI Authority | 25 | 0 |
| Web Authority | 35 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 67 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published — vCore price cells render client-side per region/currency and resolved to placeholders when retrieved · free tier: With an Azure free account: up to 750 hours of Burstable compute and 32 GB of storage per month for 12 months at no cost | Lite: $0.0055 per MAU above the free tier (first band), $0.0046 per MAU next band — AWS example 950,000 MAUs = $4,405/month · free tier: 10,000 MAU/month per account or AWS Organization on Lite and Essentials (does not expire); 50 MAU/month for SAML 2.0/OIDC federated users on any tier; identity pools free of charge; no free tier on Plus, none for M2M token requests, and none in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (per compute SKU plus storage; pay-as-you-go, savings plan, or 1/3-year reservations) | Usage-based (pay-as-you-go per monthly active user, plus per-token and per-RPS add-ons) |
| Best for | Organisations already standardised on Azure identity, networking and enterprise agreements that need managed PostgreSQL with zone-redundant HA, in-database vector search, or Azure Government regions, and that can commit to reservations or a savings plan for predictable workloads. | Engineering teams already running on AWS that are building consumer or B2C applications with social/direct sign-in, either below 10,000 MAU (free) or above roughly 500,000 MAU on Lite, and with in-house capacity to wire up Lambda triggers, IAM, KMS and SNS/SES. |
| Avoid if | You need a firm published monthly price before procurement, may need to shrink storage after right-sizing, cannot tolerate platform-initiated maintenance windows, or are not otherwise on Azure — outside the ecosystem the differentiators shrink. | You sell B2B SaaS where every user arrives via a corporate SAML/OIDC IdP, need adaptive authentication on a small user base, provision an app client per tenant beyond 2,500, operate in GovCloud, have no AWS footprint or platform engineering capacity, or require a fixed predictable monthly invoice. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Public Sector, Startups | SMB, Enterprise, Startups, Consumer/B2C applications, Public sector (with GovCloud limitations) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, USA | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.