Types of Services Offered By Microsoft Entra/Azure

Question

Hi! I was going through a training and saw the differences between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and On-premise. I am reaching out to see if Microsoft Azure/Entra ID supports those types of services? Thanks!

Answer 1

@Ella Stern

Thank you for your post!

I understand that you're trying to see if Microsoft Azure/Entra ID supports services within IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem, and to hopefully help point you in the right direction or resolve your issue, I'll share my findings below.

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Findings:

Adding onto what was shared by David, when it comes to Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID, it does support both PaaS and SaaS services.

Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID is a cloud-based Identity as a Service (IDaaS) provider that offers a broad range of identity and access management capabilities for organization.

• For more info - Microsoft cloud identity for IT architects

If you're still having issues, please let me know.

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Additional Links:

• What is Azure Active Directory?
• Which features work in Azure AD?
• Use a fully managed identity service platform
• Azure identity management security overview
• Microsoft Entra ID products and pricing
• Manage and protect with Microsoft Entra ID

I hope this helps!

Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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Answer 2

Hi Ella,

To briefly answer your question: yes.

Entra ID, formally Azure AD is a full identity solution.

However the topic of Identity is a very broad subject.

I would suggest you start by listing out all of the ways you use identity and then begin mapping associated architectures to those assets/applications.

reference:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access/microsoft-entra-id#:~:text=What%20is%20Microsoft%20Entra%20ID,for%20hybrid%20and%20multicloud%20environments.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/