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It would be confusing to me if Microsoft were utilising Okta themselves. Their own Azure offerings provide everything Okta does (and usually bundled into something you're already buying).

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Over the weekend, LAPSUS$ posted a screenshot to its Telegram channel of what appeared to be information taken from an internal developer account for Azure, its cloud computing division.

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-investigating-potential-lapsus...

Yes I've seen that, but I don't see how people are making the leap to assume that this Azure leak came through Okta.

I'd be kinda shocked to find that Okta isn't anywhere in Microsoft, just given acquisitions. But yeah, no evidence that it's directly related.

Azure B2C is a direct competitor to Okta... If MS isnt dogfooding this, when what would they dogfood?

Azure B2C is awful though

Azure is awful in general. Microsoft can't even copy other clouds efficiently.

In my admittedly limited experience it is “alright”, and their sales people don’t pretend that it’s magic like the AWS sales people do.

Honestly I’m so unimpressed with AWS that I find it hard to say Azure is terrible, because the bar for terrible is set much lower.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from it.

I haven't had direct experience with Azure B2C, why is it awful?

Laborious, confusing, error-prone and extremely extensively but poorly documented.

Acquisitions get authentication replaced fast (well, fast-ish, we got a year to change over). It might be around somewhere, but, AAD is used nearly universally and I've never seen Okta.

GitHub used Okta, it’s been a while so possibly replaced, but one example.

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