Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution. Entra ID helps organizations set up a single set of login credentials for their employees with which they can access multiple services.

Let’s say we have an organization with 20 to 25 employees: some quality assurance engineers, some individuals from the support team, and some individuals in the marketing team. The development is very small.

Let’s say another organization has 1000 employees and they need access to Azure services such as Azure Web Apps, SQL databases, and storage container services. It can get increasingly difficult to handle access to this large number of employees. To manage this, the administrators can use Entra ID and handle multiple user logins without any issues. An employee only requires a single username and a password to access all the services they want.

Note: Due to the heavy demand for remote jobs, Microsoft Teams built the foundation of a remote workforce and Entra ID was a key component in its implementation.

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