Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory, also referred to as Azure AD/AAD, is Microsoft's multi-tenant identity management for all it's tenant resources and services.  It provides Single Sign-On, or SSO, services for operations folks and Application Identity services for the developers.  It comes in the following four flavors and provides three 9s or 99.9% SLA and pricing (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/active-directory/):

  • Free
  • Basic - $1 per user:
    • Cost-reducing features such as group-based access management
    • Self-service password reset for cloud applications
    • Azure Active Directory Application Proxy
  • P1 - $6 per user:
    • All basic features
    • Hybrid environments across application access
    • Self-service identity
    • Access ...

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