Secure Identity-Led Access to AWS, GCP, and Azure Instances Using Okta

Removing IAM barriers to cloud strategies

As more enterprises continue to move to the cloud, their investments in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure rise as well. Whether it's to reduce costs or increase deployment speed and agility at scale, leveraging the cloud to power server applications and workloads can play a major role in helping organizations achieve their strategic objectives. But some of the biggest obstacles to fully embracing the cloud revolve around identity and access management (IAM).

Legacy IAM tools and software don’t translate well to the cloud and it can be a significant challenge to figure out a cost-effective way to rearchitect IAM for new environments. Enterprises might also worry about the impacts on their existing environments if they move from their traditional IAM methods and procedures to more modern ones.

Of course, all major cloud providers offer their own IAM services, but under their shared responsibility models enterprises still own the heavy burden of trying to figure out how to use those services to keep everything in their cloud environment secure. The difficulty of that effort is substantially increased by the complexities inherent to the IAM services offered by the providers. But perhaps a bigger concern regarding those IAM services is that their proprietary nature can prevent enterprises from executing multi-cloud strategies.

A recent Forrester study indicated that 86% of enterprises have adopted multi-cloud strategies.

Designed for elastic cloud infrastructures, Okta Advanced Server Access removes these barriers to cloud migration. It gives you a cloud-native approach to IAM that enables you to preserve the