--- title: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 165 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 165 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Identity Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/identity-management --- # AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) but has limited features. Are you part of the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources. It allows you to manage permissions, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can access specific resources. IAM provides the infrastructure necessary to control authentication and authorization for your AWS accounts. Key Features and Functionality: - Centralized Access Control: Manage all users and their permissions from a single place, allowing for streamlined administration of access rights. - Granular Permissions: Define precise permissions for users, specifying which actions they can perform on which resources, facilitating the principle of least privilege. - Identity Federation: Allow users who already have passwords elsewhere—for example, in your corporate network or with an internet identity provider—to access your AWS account. - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Enhance security by requiring users to provide additional verification beyond just a password, such as a code from a configured device. - Temporary Security Credentials: Grant temporary security credentials for workloads that access your AWS resources using IAM, reducing the risk associated with long-term credentials. Primary Value and Problem Solved: IAM addresses the critical need for secure and efficient access management within AWS environments. By providing centralized control over user identities and permissions, IAM helps organizations enforce security policies, comply with regulatory requirements, and minimize the risk of unauthorized access. It enables the implementation of fine-grained access controls, ensuring that users and applications have only the permissions necessary to perform their tasks, thereby enhancing overall security posture. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-identity-and-access-management-iam/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Lokesha K Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 9 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-identity-and-access-management-iam/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Okta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Okta") Okta 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) [ ![Microsoft Entra ID](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft Entra ID") Microsoft Entra ID 4.5/5(912) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-entra-id/reviews) [ ![WSO2 Identity Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "WSO2 Identity Platform") WSO2 Identity Platform 4.5/5(110) ](https://www.g2.com/products/wso2-identity-platform/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-identity-and-access-management-iam/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 165 real user reviews. 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DM Debarshi M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/14/2023 "AWS IAM Review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? the best part of IAM I liked while integration with AWS API gateway auth as IAM, that I can sign with social identities with Cognito IDP and helps my user to grant role-based access for some of my AWS resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? so far no dislike IAM, it's really too easy to use and pretty simple to understand each and every term within IAM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? IAM helps us to grant role-based access to out AWS resources, also apart from this we can also configure openID such as Salesforce. It helps us to know who is going to use what sort of aws resources with defined policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/25/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ravinder S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ravinder S.") RS Ravinder S. AWS Cloud - Linux System Administrator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/8/2023 "AWS Cloud Security" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Cloud Security prevent Infrastructure from unauthorised access and fraud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Something integration with third-party products not easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Prevent Infrastructure from unauthorised access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/6/2023 "Most critical and important module of AWS to manage accesses of the user" 0/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? The way IAM is managing the access control on the user. It Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? I don't think AWS should improve anything for IAM. It is not ul tk the mark Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS IAM is resolving very critical problems in managing the security of the cloud infrastructure. It provides the critical feature of restricting access to resources. There are many ways using which admin can control user access by assigning a role to the users and grouping users with specific roles. It is a very easy-to-use tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/4/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sarang K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sarang K.") SK Sarang K. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/24/2023 "AWS IAM and identity centre" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Centralised service to manage all of your consol and programmatic access for users, principles and services for RBAC using granular policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Cannot think of anything right now. Everything seems to be perfect here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? It solves the need to put granular access for RBAC assigned to users or principles for either console based access or programmatic access to various AWS services across accounts and regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/24/2023 "AWS IAM Review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? The information availability is great and it very much concise and elaborated when explored into various expects of AWS Adminstrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? For beginners it could be overwhelming but after a good training. Anyone can start exploring the platform better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? It is used better user management and access levels to AWS Secure environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/16/2022 "IAM Access management Review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? IAM access management is easy to use once you get the basics of Roles, & Policies. They can be customized to cater to any Organization. They can be easily integrated with SAML and supports federated sign-ins as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? It might get a bit tricky to use at first. Azure's RBAC offers a similar experience which is more user-friendly. But once one understands the nuances it can be very well catered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Controls access to services. It can be restricted to work in a specific region. You can apply them to the root account and the rules can then trickle down to the other groups using SCP's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") AC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/30/2022 "AWS IAM - Is kinda perfect, an AD integration would make it Perfect!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? IAM is easy to use and powerful. The User and Group model is the most familiarr, But the Role model is the most powerful (Assume Role). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? IAM badly needs an AD integration. SAML is fine but an on Prem AD integration would just make IAM perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Its an identity solution without which using AWS is impossibe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/24/2022 "Benifits of IAM" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides fine-grained access control across all of AWS. With IAM, you can specify who can access which services and resources and uder which conditions. With IAM you can manage permissions to your workforce and systems to ensure least-privilage permissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? It is a bit less complete than other solutions specialized on identity management and sometimes its hard to find the right documantation and Moreover MFA will expire in one day.Easy users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy Users and Groups management, Identity Providers, 2Fa, keep track of their .csv files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/10/2022 "IAM" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? IAM is brilliant for managing access to AWS resources. Its easy to use using the wizard and is also great for providing least privilege access to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? At times, it can be confusing when creating roles. Trying to understand what service to assume or trust can be difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Use the wizard to make least privilege accounts easier to administer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy use access to limited resources within Aws and also programmatic access to use the Aws cli Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/14/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/4/2020 "Great" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? The integration went smooth It offers many Identy providers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Sometimes its hard to find the right documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy users and groups management Identity providers 2Fa Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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