AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Alternatives (January 2026)

Implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) that scales to millions of users with Amazon Cognito, fully managed authentication service.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) gives admins fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally managing enterprise cloud resources

AWS Resource Access Manager helps you securely share your AWS resources with other AWS accounts.

AWS IAM Identity Center is the AWS solution for connecting your workforce users to AWS managed applications such as Amazon Q Developer and Amazon QuickSight, and other AWS resources. You can connect your existing identity provider and synchronize users and groups from your directory, or create and manage your users directly in IAM Identity Center. You can then use IAM Identity Center for either or both of the following:

AWS Organizations enables centralized cloud account management as you grow and scale your AWS resources.

AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

Use AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal connected resources.

With CyberArk Workforce & Customer Access solutions, organizations can ensure that the right users have secure access to the right resources at the right time.

Oracle identity and access management solutions secure access to enterprise applications for both cloud and on-premises deployments.