Authress vs Amazon Cognito
Learn how Authress 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.
Feature Comparison
Both tools offer comparable feature coverage, with Authress supporting 27 features and Amazon Cognito supporting 27. Consider your specific needs regarding authentication, enterprise auth, security, user management and extensibility when making your decision. Authress fully covers authentication, and both tools fully cover machine to machine (m2m) authentication and branding.
Allows administrators to customise JWT and session lifetimes. Default tokens expire after 24 hours and sessions after 30 days but these limits can be increased
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Allows administrators to customise JWT and session lifetimes. Default tokens expire after 24 hours and sessions after 30 days but these limits can be increased | ||
Compliance Comparison
Amazon Cognito offers significantly broader coverage than Authress, supporting 12 certifications and regulatory frameworks compared to 1 for Authress.

