Authelia vs Amazon Cognito
Learn how Authelia and Amazon Cognito differ in their key features like authentication, enterprise auth, security, user management and compliance, so you can decide which of these authentication providers is best for you.
Authelia

Feature Comparison
Amazon Cognito offers broader feature coverage than Authelia, supporting 27 features compared to 18. Both tools fully cover machine to machine (m2m) authentication and branding.
Supports FIDO2 security keys and passkeys so users can register multiple WebAuthn credentials and authenticate with a passkey
Sessions can be configured with custom expiration, inactivity and remember‑me lifetimes allowing long‑lived sessions
Provides translations of the login portal and a language picker with support for multiple locales
| Authelia | Amazon Cognito | |
|---|---|---|
Supports FIDO2 security keys and passkeys so users can register multiple WebAuthn credentials and authenticate with a passkey | ||
Sessions can be configured with custom expiration, inactivity and remember‑me lifetimes allowing long‑lived sessions | ||
Provides translations of the login portal and a language picker with support for multiple locales |
Compliance Comparison
Amazon Cognito offers significantly broader coverage than Authelia, supporting 12 certifications and regulatory frameworks compared to 0 for Authelia. Since Authelia is open source and does not include compliance certifications, you’ll need to manage compliance yourself.
