--- title: AWS Single Sign-On Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Single Sign-On Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 25 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Single Sign-On works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 25 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-13' parent_category: name: Identity Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/identity-management --- # AWS Single Sign-On Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Single Sign-On (SSO) Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/single-sign-on-sso) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About AWS Single Sign-On AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is a cloud SSO service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications. It enables users to sign in to a user portal with their existing corporate credentials and access all of their assigned accounts and applications from one place. ## AWS Single Sign-On Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **learning opportunities** AWS Single Sign-On provides, enhancing their understanding of advanced security and monitoring. (1 reviews) - Users value the **enhanced security features** of AWS Single Sign-On, particularly for fine-grained user control and MFA. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users often face **integration issues** with third-party security tools, leading to compatibility challenges and complex configurations. (1 reviews) - Users find AWS Single Sign-On **not user-friendly** , often struggling with a confusing interface and complexity in integration. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor interface design** of AWS Single Sign-On confusing, leading to a frustrating user experience. (1 reviews) ## AWS Single Sign-On Reviews ### 1. Saves Time and Simplifies Team Access Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neelu P. | Project Engineer (Developer), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2026 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Because it saves time, there’s no need to remember all passwords, and it makes access management easier for team-related work. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** If you’re a beginner, the initial setup can feel complex. I found that configuring users or groups across multiple AWS accounts takes a bit more time than expected. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** It simplifies access by offering a single, secure login across multiple AWS accounts and applications. This improves security, saves time, and makes user management much easier. ### 2. AWS Cloud Security: Empowering Security, Ensuring Compliance, and Safeguarding our Digital Future. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil M. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** IAM: AWS IAM provides fine-grained control over user permissions and supports multi-factor authentication (MFA), adding an extra layer of security. Monitoring and threat detection are one of the best. I used services like Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub in our organization quite often. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Integrating certain third-party security tools may pose challenges due to compatibility issues or the need for additional configuration. Some users may find the AWS Cloud Security interface a bit confusing and not very user-friendly. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Cloud Security provides tools that help companies ensure their digital assets are safe and meet regulatory requirements. It helps control who can access what through Identity and Access Management, keeps sensitive data safe using encryption, watches for any potential threats all the time, and gives tools to make sure everything follows the rules. This means a company can have a strong, safe, and organized cloud setup, protecting its data and operations effectively. ### 3. I always use AWS SSO **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ASHISH R. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** It is ease to use , I use EC2 instances which is so easy to use. I always use this when I am building my android studio applications. Its security is also very good and easy to implement. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** It has some extra documentary and for new users setup is somewhat little bit challenging. Other than this , it is a best SSO i worked with. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using its EC2 instance in my application for using cloud services and sign in authorization. ### 4. Good Choice for a AWS Native Single Sign-On **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron A. | Systems Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** I like that it is an AWS native SSO offering, that integrates with AWS Directory services and Windows Active Directory. I have used this in a lab environment and it was easy to set up. I like that I can have a single source for authenticating users, which saves me from creating Active Directory users and AWS users in IAM. This is also more secure. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** I have not found too much not to like. It does not support providers like Google and Apple natively, but I think with SAML it is possible. If it is not possible, AWS Cognos will fill this need. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** It can be a little tricky to set up, but once it is done you'll have an excellent service. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** The complexity of having multiple accounts for a single user. This saves time and troubleshooting when any user is having issues. It allows for easier group management with Active Directory. I can create a group in Active Directory and then assign a role and policies to that group in AWS SSO. ### 5. Not Ready for Developers **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** The promise of a single login and simplified management of role assumption access to multiple accounts. It works okay for the console. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** The multiple CLI tools and SDKs do not play nice with SSO and role assumption which is critical to developer workflows. Amplfy for example doesn't yet work with sso, https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli/issues/4488. neither does Terraform. Configuring and using SSO requires a lot of additional command line arguments and remember a lot of various id. There is a whole niche universe of tools like https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-sso-util and https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-export-credentials that are built to work around the issue with the SSO experience for CLI uses that demonstrate the immaturity of the product. For a good developer experience with good security isolation via multiple accounts setup, you still need to manually create tokens in each environment for your developers. The entire point of SSO is avoid that overhead. I can't in good conscience recommend that companies use SSO for their development and devops teams, which I suspect are the majority of AWS users. I'd assume all the Rah-Rah reviews above are people who don't really have to deal with the pain and frustration development teams with a devops practice have to go through to try to use this tooling, or they're paid reviewers. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secured Multi-Account Setup with AWS SSO. We haven't realized any benefit yet. I ### 6. AWS Single Sign-on **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** AWS single sign-on allows users to safely connect to the cloud environemnts such as the EC2 virtual machines, AWS hosted web services, and API. It also safely integrates with AWS CLI that allows users to connect remote servers and also build EC2 machines using silent deployment scripts/methods. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Nothing. The product is excellent & integrates with most applications. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** AWS single sign-on is easy to set up & it seamlessly integrates with applications. Recommend **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS single-sign-on is used in our organization to connect to the AWS EC2 virtual machines, create and access APIs hosted on AWS. We also use single sign-on to access the AWS RDS database services to connect to the Oracle and SQL database services. The AWS AI services are also hosted on the AWS SSO service. ### 7. AWS SSO **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** It helps to access multiple applications using only one credential. It helps integrate with different applications and allows people to access applications from a single console. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Challenges with integration with various on-premise applications are a challenge. There have not been some standards of the box use cases for application integration. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** If you are using AWS cloud as your cloud provider, then consider using AWS single Sign-on for ease of access to all the applications for all the users. It would help in managing a single vendor for a single sign-on. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of access of multiple applications, Improve the security posture, Improve the management of identities, help in audit logs, and any troubleshooting for the environment. ### 8. A Convenient Platform to Manage Workplace Roles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** This platform makes managing roles and permissions within an organization easy. With some help from an IT team member, an employee's roles and permissions can be changed in a snap. This impacts what software you have access to you based on your role within the company. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** I haven't had any issues with AWS SSO since we've began using it. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our organization uses AWS SSO to manage which software and tooling is available to each employee, as we have a wide range of tools applicable to different teams. ### 9. AWS review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zain K. | Software Engineer Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Simple and fast, nothing over the top, it just gets the job done. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Occasionally outages, not very often, but recently, there have been a few of these outages. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single Sign-On just lets me sign into my school accounts. ### 10. I liked working on aws **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeev Ranjan K. | Android Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Aws documentation is awesome, Loved the featured of aws for the security, Easy implementation **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Document is fine but sometimes feel it has lot of extra information **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** Guys awesome experience you should user the Aws Sing **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Home automation ### 11. Sign-on **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Helps to manage SSO to multiple aws accounts. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Haven't faced any issues currently things work well. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily assigning job roles to the users. Centrally managed. ### 12. Single sign in for multiple access **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** It provides central access to all AWS accounts. The management becomes easy as you can access multiple applications with one sign in. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Integration is quite challenging for a beginner. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving Central access to all AWS accounts on our platform ### 13. Powerful Simplicity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** I like how clean, intuitive, and easy-to-use the end-user interface is. It makes navigation very easy for my employees, reducing support calls and boosting efficiency. I also like how its easy to create new users and add them to groups, which makes granting SSO users IAM access easy enough (I do feel that improvements could be made, though). **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** I don't like how it doesn't import existing users from the AWS IAM service. In my opinion the ability to import data like that would really help ease the migration process from our old, mixed SSO-AWS IAM setup to a new, all SSO solution. The administrator interface, while easy enough to use, feels dated and doesn't really match the idea of a "powerful dashboard" that I've come to expect from AWS. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** Don't set up AWS IAM before SSO, because you cannot import profiles from IAM and you'll just end up wasting setup time by doing so. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** So far we've been able to use AWS SSO to centralize the many different services that our employees have to log into during day-to-day operations, which has saved us time and money because now everything is one place. ### 14. Makes Life So Much Easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** I always like to say "I live in a password hell." For one reason or another I can never remember my passwords. This helps me to sign in to nearly all of our business applications quickly and easily. We transitioned to AWS SSO about a year ago and it has been easy to add all of our users as well as remove them from programs when necessary. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** The initial setup can be a little tedious but once the setup is done everything is so easy! **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** If your company uses many different applications this is the easiest way to manage access. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fact that we are able to utilize the AWS SSO with so many applications is fantastic. Instead of manually creating an account for each user on all of our different applications we can use it to allow access to everyone in our organization. It saves time which equates to money. ### 15. A product with ease of use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Its the ease of use which is the key feature and the best part is the more comprehensive single sign-on experience. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** I wish AWS would have entered the marked a long time ago like the industry key players Okta did in 2009. I feel its a missed opportunity. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** It has a very different experience compared to Okta. try it. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our organization, we are using to manage SSO access and user permissions to all the accounts centrally. The best part is the integration with business applications we currently use, such as Salesforce, Office 365 etc. ### 16. Good choice for user authentication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morgan G. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** The easy API, the simplicity of use, the fast response are all I like. AWS SSO is the option for you if you need user authentication service. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** I have not found anything I don't like so far. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** It is easy to use. Well documented. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need a signin authorization that can simplify the process of user registration and login. ### 17. Check Start with AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Allows flexible integration with support on various web platforms. Secure, Accessible. Support and Backup. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** So far, there is no objection to the integration with AWS SSO. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** Recommended for the integration of platforms that prefer secure login, user registration, and data backup. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allow login with my integrations and platform. ### 18. As You Might Expect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** For a regular AWS'er, it's a easy project. It's been reliable, and super convenient. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** For someone that isn't a regular AWS'er, there is going to be a learning curve to implement. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Combining auth sessions. It's convenient to not have multiple places to log in. ### 19. Single sign on is a time and money saver **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason M. | Account Executive, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Any time anyone brings you a single sign on solution, you need to look under the hood and check security. the functionality of single sign-on is so simple and basic that everyone can do more or less the same thing. IT's not the ease of passwords its the secure ease of passwords that make any of these solutions work. Amazon delivers on that promise. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Does it cover everything, well yes as long as its in the cloud. So its could based and not device based. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** Get some info and a trial. Ideally get a live expert to go through the program with you to show you how to get the most out of it. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster logins mean more time doing work. ### 20. AWS SSO review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaushal C. | Devops engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** It works seemlessly with private or any 3rd party vendor for authentication **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Its not matured enough for large enterprises. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide seemless login with same credentials across all apps/services ### 21. Easy and effective way for access control to multiple services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Single Sign On helps the user sign in only once to access multiple services within the organization. It also helps restrict control to users from an administrator's point of view. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Cannot import current users. Dashboard needs more features. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Single Sign-On:** Dashboard needs to have easier navigation and detailed information. Ability to import current users. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy system administration, and access control. ### 22. It's SSO... through Amazon. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** You don't have to remember 103930403 passwords for all the AWS apps you are managing. You will literally save hours not having to reset your password 100 times, and then remember to what email inbox. Amazing. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** Not much - sometimes it requires loading more than once. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSO is basic among most platforms now - but not everyone does it well. AWS SSO does exactly as needed and you don't have to remember a million different passwords. ### 23. very useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** What i like the most AWS single sign on is the simplicity and ease of use. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** I have not found something that I dislike about this product as of yet. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using AWS single sign on for cloud infrastructure management. ### 24. Best cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** It’s a best cloud system with a single signon **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** There are no much dislikes to discuss here **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of forgetting password for every application ### 25. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Single Sign-On?** Simple, elegant and it works. It solves a problem that is common with our end users. **What do you dislike about AWS Single Sign-On?** There is nothing significant to call out. **What problems is AWS Single Sign-On solving and how is that benefiting you?** no need to store multiple passwords in various places ## AWS Single Sign-On Discussions - [How do I enable single sign-on on AWS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-enable-single-sign-on-on-aws) - [Which of the following service in AWS can enable single sign-on to the AWS console?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-service-in-aws-can-enable-single-sign-on-to-the-aws-console) - [Does AWS support SSO?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-aws-support-sso) - [What is AWS single sign-on?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-single-sign-on) - [View AWS Single Sign-On pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-single-sign-on/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-13+16%3A45%3A59+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=99e8818f-bb91-42b7-a45b-3cea51f854c1&secure%5Btoken%5D=d262df7660c3d154c21d9892f4e8428900ab9dfb269c32f0f422d4d64c0871ba&format=llm_user) ## AWS Single Sign-On Integrations - [Microsoft 365](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft365/reviews) ## AWS Single Sign-On Features **Authentication Options** - Authentication User experience - Supports Required Authentication systems - Multi-Factor Authentication - Supports Required Authentication Methods/Protocols - Federation/SAML support (idp) - Federation/SAML support (sp) **Access Control Types** - Endpoint access - Local Access - Remote Access - Partner Access - Supports BYOD users **Administration** - Ease of installation on server - Password Policy Enforcement - Administration Console - Ease of connecting applications - Self Service Password Administration **Platform** - Multiple Operating system support - Multi-Domain Support - Cross Browser support - Fail over protection - Reporting - Auditing - Third Party Web Services support ## Top AWS Single Sign-On Alternatives - [Okta](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,280 reviews) - [Microsoft Entra ID](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-entra-id/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (872 reviews) - [Auth0](https://www.g2.com/products/auth0/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (266 reviews)