I'm new to Azure and come from an AWS background. Our organization is developing an app for users outside our organization, and I'm wondering if Microsoft Entra or any other Azure services can support this type of identity provider (IDP) functionality. In my comparison, I think of Microsoft Entra as similar to AWS IAM, but what's the counterpart for AWS Cognito?
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Microsoft has a helpful guide for transitioning from AWS to Azure. You can check out their 'Azure for AWS Professionals' resource to get a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the two platforms.
There isn't a direct one-to-one comparison. The closest option in Azure is probably Entra ID B2C, which is geared towards customer-facing applications. If your use case is broader, you might want to explore Keycloak as well.
I heard that B2C isn't being sold to new customers anymore. Does that mean I should set up an Entra ID tenant using the external template instead?