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AWS Single Sign-On Reviews & Product Details

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.

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AWS Single Sign-On Reviews (24)

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Akhil M.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/14/2023

"AWS Cloud Security: Empowering Security, Ensuring Compliance, and Safeguarding our Digital Future."

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

IAM: AWS IAM provides fine-grained control over user permissions and supports multi-factor authentication (MFA), adding an extra layer of security.

Monitoring and threat detection are one of the best. I used services like Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub in our organization quite often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

Integrating certain third-party security tools may pose challenges due to compatibility issues or the need for additional configuration.

Some users may find the AWS Cloud Security interface a bit confusing and not very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Cloud Security provides tools that help companies ensure their digital assets are safe and meet regulatory requirements. It helps control who can access what through Identity and Access Management, keeps sensitive data safe using encryption, watches for any potential threats all the time, and gives tools to make sure everything follows the rules. This means a company can have a strong, safe, and organized cloud setup, protecting its data and operations effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ASHISH R.

Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/17/2022

"I always use AWS SSO"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

It is ease to use , I use EC2 instances which is so easy to use. I always use this when I am building my android studio applications.

Its security is also very good and easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

It has some extra documentary and for new users setup is somewhat little bit challenging.

Other than this , it is a best SSO i worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron A.

Systems Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/28/2022

"Good Choice for a AWS Native Single Sign-On"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

I like that it is an AWS native SSO offering, that integrates with AWS Directory services and Windows Active Directory. I have used this in a lab environment and it was easy to set up. I like that I can have a single source for authenticating users, which saves me from creating Active Directory users and AWS users in IAM. This is also more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

I have not found too much not to like. It does not support providers like Google and Apple natively, but I think with SAML it is possible. If it is not possible, AWS Cognos will fill this need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It can be a little tricky to set up, but once it is done you'll have an excellent service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?

The complexity of having multiple accounts for a single user. This saves time and troubleshooting when any user is having issues. It allows for easier group management with Active Directory. I can create a group in Active Directory and then assign a role and policies to that group in AWS SSO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/1/2021

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"Not Ready for Developers"

0/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

The promise of a single login and simplified management of role assumption access to multiple accounts. It works okay for the console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

The multiple CLI tools and SDKs do not play nice with SSO and role assumption which is critical to developer workflows.

Amplfy for example doesn't yet work with sso, https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli/issues/4488. neither does Terraform.

Configuring and using SSO requires a lot of additional command line arguments and remember a lot of various id. There is a whole niche universe of tools like https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-sso-util and https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-export-credentials that are built to work around the issue with the SSO experience for CLI uses that demonstrate the immaturity of the product.

For a good developer experience with good security isolation via multiple accounts setup, you still need to manually create tokens in each environment for your developers. The entire point of SSO is avoid that overhead.

I can't in good conscience recommend that companies use SSO for their development and devops teams, which I suspect are the majority of AWS users.

I'd assume all the Rah-Rah reviews above are people who don't really have to deal with the pain and frustration development teams with a devops practice have to go through to try to use this tooling, or they're paid reviewers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/3/2021

"AWS Single Sign-on"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

AWS single sign-on allows users to safely connect to the cloud environemnts such as the EC2 virtual machines, AWS hosted web services, and API. It also safely integrates with AWS CLI that allows users to connect remote servers and also build EC2 machines using silent deployment scripts/methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

Nothing. The product is excellent & integrates with most applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:

AWS single sign-on is easy to set up & it seamlessly integrates with applications. Recommend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS single-sign-on is used in our organization to connect to the AWS EC2 virtual machines, create and access APIs hosted on AWS. We also use single sign-on to access the AWS RDS database services to connect to the Oracle and SQL database services. The AWS AI services are also hosted on the AWS SSO service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/27/2022

"AWS SSO"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

It helps to access multiple applications using only one credential. It helps integrate with different applications and allows people to access applications from a single console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

Challenges with integration with various on-premise applications are a challenge. There have not been some standards of the box use cases for application integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:

If you are using AWS cloud as your cloud provider, then consider using AWS single Sign-on for ease of access to all the applications for all the users. It would help in managing a single vendor for a single sign-on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of access of multiple applications, Improve the security posture, Improve the management of identities, help in audit logs, and any troubleshooting for the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/16/2021

"A Convenient Platform to Manage Workplace Roles"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?

This platform makes managing roles and permissions within an organization easy. With some help from an IT team member, an employee's roles and permissions can be changed in a snap. This impacts what software you have access to you based on your role within the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?

I haven't had any issues with AWS SSO since we've began using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.