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by mooreds 933 days ago
Disclosure: I work at FusionAuth, an auth provider.

Most of the folks we see are moving from Firebase rather than Google Identity Platform. Wait, I'm confused. Are they the same thing? https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/docs/sign-in-user... uses them interchangeably.

Ah, another search turns up https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/docs/product-comp...

So Firebase auth is built on Google Identity Platform.
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nogridbag 932 days ago
I was referring from a technical perspective. I agree they have a branding/marketing issue.

I did consult other groups using Google Identity Platform at our company and some things came up:

    * SMS / email templates not customizable
    * Undocumented user auth rate limiting with hacky workarounds
Otherwise our devs have been quite happy with it. I've primarily settled on it because it already has approval at our org, it's simple, and fairly well documented - especially compared to something like Cognito.
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mooreds 932 days ago
Awesome, thanks for sharing that. Love real world feedback.

> I've primarily settled on it because it already has approval at our org, it's simple, and fairly well documented

Those are great reasons to select a product. If it works for you, it works for you!

> especially compared to something like Cognito.

I was half expecting a new CIAM solution from AWS at Re:Invent. I don't understand why they don't invest more in Cognito. Such an own-goal.

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