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Does this rise to the level of antitrust scrutiny? Aren't these like the two biggest SSO providers?
by dyeje 6y ago
Does this rise to the level of antitrust scrutiny? Aren't these like the two biggest SSO providers?
- bdcravens 6y agoExcept that AWS and Google have their own offerings (and the I think these aren't SSO companies as much as Auth as a Service providers)
- motives 6y agoAzure AD is the biggest in the game by far in terms of SSO, stretching every vertical from education to investment banking.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago...only because of Office 365 though.
- softveda 6y agoAzure AD B2C for customer IAM is lagging way behind Okta/Auth0 etc. Sure AAD is great enterprise users or B2B but millions of customer login, branding, app experience B2C sucks.
- davewritescode 6y agoIf Cognito is the AWS offering you're talking about then it doesn't even begin to compete. It's really a terrible product and AWS has misled us about the roadmap multiple times specifically in relation to multi-region support. When AWS Cognito had it's outage in November, I was quite happy we went with Okta.
- bdcravens 6y agoI'm unimpressed with it as well, but I suspect antitrust officials have a different definition of "competition" than we do.
- staysaasy 6y agoHad exactly the same thought – this seems like it's begging for the antitrust hammer.
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- ROARosen 6y agoIn a way I think this is good for consumers as it positions them better to counterbalance Microsoft, the big bear in the field.
- ahallock 6y agoA little, but I don't even think they're the biggest.
- tpmx 6y agoI'd think so, but in the US antitrust isn't really much of a thing. I wonder if they have grown large enough in Europe yet...
- sojournerc 6y agoI'm curious why you think anti-trust isn't a thing in the US... What do you think of the break-up of Bell Systems? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System There are also active anti-trust investigations into Google and Facebook. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/tech/google-antitrust-lawsuit/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/tech/google-antitrust-lawsuit... https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit/ https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/facebook-antitrust-...
- pottertheotter 6y agoI think tpmx means antitrust isn't currently much of a thing in the US, and I agree. Today's antitrust environment is a far cry from even the days of Bell.
- bnjms 6y agoDisney bought Fox and Amazon both sells 1st party and 3rd party goods. So I’d say no.
- manigandham 6y agoBiggest but not a monopoly. There are numerous competitors from open-source to managed versions. Every major cloud also has an auth/identity product and collectively probably have more total customers at this point.