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No More Mess in my Head Around Phrases Related to Identity in Computing

What is Identity? Azure Active Directory is just Active Directory in Azure? Microsoft Graph is a Data Visualization Framework or What?

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Identity

What is Identity in Cloud

Identity is a unique identification of an object. Such an object can be a human being, machine, or a combination of it. When we talk in the cloud computing context, identity means a set of properties about this object stored in the cloud's datacentre.

Introduction to Cloud Computing

Identity & Access Management

Identity Management (IdM) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an interchangeable term in identity access management. So if you are reading about one, you are probably reading about the second term too.

IAM is a framework of policies that tell what users can do in their restricted area and what he needs from the user to…