Identity Providers in the Real World
In the last chapter, we saw the most popular trends that describe the challenges that any enterprise architect should be aware of when designing an application nowadays.
This chapter will provide a list of the most prominent Identity Providers (IDPs) that are part of the modern identity landscape. We are going to briefly describe their capabilities in terms of use cases and the target audience they cover.
The objective of this chapter is not only to review the most prominent IDPs one by one but also to enable you to understand, appreciate, and evaluate technical and non-technical considerations when it is time to choose a provider.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- The technical aspects
- The non-technical aspects
- Azure Active Directory (AAD)
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- Azure Active Directory B2C (AD B2C)
- Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
- Customer Identity from...