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Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by SgtBastard »

mschuster91 wrote: post #28
nostrebored wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

auth0, okta, ping identity, azure, google

Okta has been plagued by security issues [1], never heard of Ping Identity, Azure only makes sense if you get a sweetheart deal and are willing to deal with Azure's crap, and I'd never recommend anyone to use anything Google any more. [1] https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=54722

Ping Identity run the largest enterprise identity platforms on the planet after merging with ForgeRock last year. Think HSBC, JP Morgan Chase-scale.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by usr1106 »

infecto wrote: post #29
rafaelmn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EC2 sold below market rate ? S3 I could argue somehow (unconvincingly). But what's the argument for EC2 ?

Who’s actually paying list price?

The majority of the customers.

(That majority of the customers might stand for less than the turnover of the minority that enjoys discounts. But that does not help you if you belong to the majority.)

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by portaouflop »

pajeetz wrote: post #31
jonahx wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which do you recommend?

pocketbase, lucia auth, there are so many options that won't meter you for MAU for a user table in your database. authentication is critical, you shouldn't be outsourcing this stuff anyhow. learn how to harden your box, use cloudflare tunnel and dont store passwords in plaintext. its really not hard to do and constantly being gaslighted into paying someone to do it for you because everybody else is doing it is just i…

Please don’t roll your own Auth - there are too many examples where this went wrong.

Go with a proven, vetted, and trusted open source solution.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by mrklol »

paxys wrote: post #12

Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't.

SES is imo their top tier service!

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by bootstrpppin »

jonahx wrote: post #17
bootstrpppin wrote: post #10

There are so many better Auth providers out there now - and some of them are free for the first 10k or so users (workOs has the first 1M users free!)

which do you recommend?

I've used a few:

- Cognito: bad

- Clerk: ok for small scale applications but they're a small company 'moving fast and breaking things'. It's not stable enough for a enterprise grade product that needs robustness.

- Auth0: Good but can get expensive

- WorkOS: Good for B2B, especially if 'directory syncing' is important for your usecase

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by bekacru »

jonahx wrote: post #17
bootstrpppin wrote: post #10

There are so many better Auth providers out there now - and some of them are free for the first 10k or so users (workOs has the first 1M users free!)

which do you recommend?

https://better-auth.com :)

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by skorpen »

akira2501 wrote: post #6

I think the author is confused. The previous "basic tier" is actually the "lite" tier. The prices are the same, but the number of "free" MAUs is reduced. The "advanced" and "essentials" tier include what seems to be new or expanded features like fully customizable logins and passwordless login options, so you have to pay more to access these features, but it looks like everything Cognito previously provided is in the…

My apologies, you are correct. I have edited the post and corrected the values.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Post by akira2501 »

skorpen wrote: post #67
akira2501 wrote: post #6

I think the author is confused. The previous "basic tier" is actually the "lite" tier. The prices are the same, but the number of "free" MAUs is reduced. The "advanced" and "essentials" tier include what seems to be new or expanded features like fully customizable logins and passwordless login options, so you have to pay more to access these features, but it looks like everything Cognito previously provided is in the…

My apologies, you are correct. I have edited the post and corrected the values.

Not at all. I appreciate the reporting because I do use Cognito and did miss this update. Amazon took something that used to be pretty flat and simple and has now made it "tired" in a way that most of their other services aren't.

I'm not wild about it. Particularly because the web console now has a bunch of "upgrade your user pool tier" buttons littered all over the interface. You end up with a very hazy sense of what is covered and included and what isn't.

Anyways.. thanks for the update!

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