This lesson teaches IT professionals and cloud architects how to design and implement secure, centralized identity management across multiple cloud platforms. You’ll explore federation protocols, cross-cloud integrations, and security best practices to deliver a seamless and protected user experience in multicloud environments.

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for IT professionals who are expected to manage identity, security, and access control in multi-cloud environments.

Learning Objectives

Understand identity federation using protocols such as SAML, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SCIM.

Integrate Microsoft Entra ID and AWS IAM for unified cross-cloud identity and access management.

Configure SAML-based Single Sign-On and SCIM-based provisioning between cloud platforms.

Apply Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) consistently across providers.

Design a secure, centralized identity management strategy for AWS, Azure, and other cloud environments.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of it, you should be familiar with cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and GCP.

Multicloud Identity Management