Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

Federation and the Federated Identity Pattern

In many cloud scenarios, it's quite common that for the everyday business, your users need to work with different applications that comes from different providers and every application could have its own authentication mechanisms and credentials.

Imagine a business scenario where you have N different applications (on-premise applications, or cloud applications) and a user must have access to all of these N applications. In a standard environment, the user has to register in every application and remember every login accordingly.

As you can imagine, it could be quite difficult for an administrator to manage users and applications and users will have a better experience if they could use all these ...