{"id":1726,"slug":"cognito-firebase-auth-2014","title":"Amazon Cognito and Firebase Auth — 2014-era managed identity peers to Auth0","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["commodity-web-parts","auth-infrastructure"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** **Amazon Cognito (2014)** and **Firebase Auth** are peer managed-identity services to Auth0. Firebase Auth's exact launch date is not separately confirmed beyond Firebase's acquisition by Google in 2014.\n\n**Source:** Multi-source.\n\n**Confidence:** Verified for Cognito 2014; Firebase Auth exact date needs-verification.\n\n**Caveat:** Firebase Auth exact launch date not separately confirmed.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** Establishes that managed-identity wasn't a single-vendor accident. By 2014 the major clouds had each delivered an auth service — the bespoke \"roll your own\" path ([[pre-auth0-roll-your-own-password-hashing]]) was already the losing choice.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"auth0-founded-2013-managed-identity","title":"Auth0 founded 2013 — managed identity, social login, SSO, SAML","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"pre-auth0-roll-your-own-password-hashing","title":"Pre-Auth0 auth: roll-your-own password hashing, sessions, resets, lockouts — security-critical and error-prone","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"supersedes"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-falling-cost-floor-real-web-functionality-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the falling cost floor of \"real\" web functionality for SMBs (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"enterprise-tier-customer-portal-example","title":"Enterprise-tier example: customer account portal — Auth0 + RDS + role-based permissions; commodity parts, bespoke assembly still costs","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"timeline-three-drivers-converge-2004-2014","title":"Timeline 2004–2014: the decade when each of the three historically-expensive parts independently got cheap","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"caveats-falling-cost-floor-vendor-incentive","title":"Caveats: AWS vendor framing quarantined; build-vs-buy vendor cost pages flagged; DrPeering single-source; sysadmin wages needs-verification","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:00.586Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:00.586Z"}