Stack Auth vs Amazon Cognito
Learn how Stack Auth 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.
Stack Auth
Feature Comparison
Both tools offer comparable feature coverage, with Amazon Cognito supporting 27 features and Stack Auth supporting 22. Consider your specific needs regarding authentication, enterprise auth, security, user management and extensibility when making your decision. Amazon Cognito fully covers machine to machine (m2m) authentication, and both tools fully cover branding.
Stack automatically manages refresh and access tokens, JWTs and cookies for user sessions
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Stack automatically manages refresh and access tokens, JWTs and cookies for user sessions | ||
Compliance Comparison
Amazon Cognito offers significantly broader coverage than Stack Auth, supporting 12 certifications and regulatory frameworks compared to 0 for Stack Auth. Since Stack Auth is open source and does not include compliance certifications, you’ll need to manage compliance yourself.
CCPACompliant
CSA STARCertified
FedRAMPCompliant
FIPS 140-2Certified
GDPRCompliant
HIPAACompliant
ISO 27001Certified
ISO 27017Certified
ISO 27018Certified
PCI DSSCompliant
SOC2Compliant
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