Amazon Cognito

Usage-billed CIAM for teams already building on AWS

TOP SCORE™

44/100

#8 of 10 Managed Databases

High confidence

Score breakdown

What makes up this score

External Reputation79
  • 2 independent review sources
  • 473 third-party reviews counted
AI Authority0
  • 2 answer engines measured
  • cross-model consistency 1
Web Authority35
  • 13 web authority signals
  • average citing-domain authority 35
Expert Assessment60
  • 100% of the category rubric covered
TOP10 User Score
  • No approved user reviews yet

Explanation

Why Amazon Cognito ranks #8

Amazon Cognito ranks #8 of 10 managed databases with a TOP SCORE of 44.

The category leader scores 56, a gap of 11 points.

That is 5 points below the category average of 50.

Its strongest component is External Reputation at 79; its weakest is AI Authority at 0.

No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.

Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.

Score history

How the score has moved

6247 15.0

05010031 Aug1 Sept

External reputation

What third-party sources publish

SourcePublishedNormalisedReviewsLast checkedMethod
G24.5/59045731 Aug 2026permitted crawl
Capterra4.6/5921631 Aug 2026permitted crawl

AI visibility

How answer engines treat this platform

EngineMentionRecommendationCitationAvg positionQueriesMeasured
claude sonnet 5 grounded0%0%0%71 Sept 2026
claude sonnet 5 grounded8%0%8%6.0121 Sept 2026
claude sonnet 5 parametric0%0%0%121 Sept 2026
claude sonnet 5 grounded0%0%25%121 Sept 2026
claude sonnet 5 parametric8%0%0%13.0121 Sept 2026

Web authority

Citations and independent coverage

TOP10 users

What our users report

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Company information

The facts on file

Description
Amazon Cognito is a managed customer identity and access management service in AWS, offering user pools for registration, authentication and user management plus free identity pools for credential exchange. It is billed per monthly active user across three tiers (Lite, Essentials, Plus) with add-ons for multi-Region replication, higher API RPS quotas and machine-to-machine token requests. It suits engineering teams already on AWS building consumer-scale sign-in, particularly social or direct password sign-in.
Products
Cognito user pools (Lite tier), Cognito user pools (Essentials tier), Cognito user pools (Plus tier, threat protection), Cognito identity pools, Machine-to-machine authorization (OAuth 2.0 client credentials), Multi-Region replication add-on, Higher API RPS quota add-on
Markets
SMB, Enterprise, Startups, Consumer/B2C applications, Public sector (with GovCloud limitations)
Integrations
Social identity providers, SAML 2.0 identity providers, OpenID Connect providers, AWS Lambda (custom runtime triggers), Amazon SNS (SMS delivery), Amazon SES (email delivery), AWS KMS (multi-Region customer managed keys), AWS Organizations (billing boundary)
Pricing
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 page ↗
Regulatory
Verified: 99.9% SLA on all three tiers; free tier unavailable in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and advanced security features unavailable in AWS GovCloud (US-West); AWS Organizations is the billing boundary for the free tier. NOT verified this session: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA eligibility, FedRAMP status, GDPR/DPA terms and data residency commitments — these live on AWS Artifact and the AWS compliance pages, which were not retrieved.
Last verified
31 Aug 2026

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  • Category leader56
  • Category average50
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