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Wonder if and when we’ll see decent Excel/Word replacements from Amazon, perhaps coupled with a thin Linux distro. At that point you’d be able to completely do away with Microsoft in many organisations, and Amazon could simply gobble up those dollars. They’ve got enough money they could make it work.
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You might want to double check those facts. There are probably billions of SAML users. Any significant O365 implementation is using SAML. Any SaaS that allows enterprise login is using SAML. If you do business with Spectrum, you are using SAML when you login. If you interact with most government agencies, you are using SAML. That’s not to say that it does not have risk, but adoption is not an issue!
Chase Bank is another one, off the top of my head. SAML is huge. I have no idea where the guy above us is getting is intel.
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Out of curiosity (and ignorance), why SAML vs JWT or some less awful protocol?
JWT is also an awful protocol, and it's also not an SSO standard. There's still time for us not to bet the farm on JWT, and I urge clients to avoid it.
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JWT is also an awful protocol, and it's also not an SSO standard. There's still time for us not to bet the farm on JWT, and I urge clients to avoid it.
Why not OIDC? (which is a SSO standard)
If this is interesting to you but you're iffy about setting up another directory service or having AWS be your central list of identities for all your apps, we're open sourcing The Identity Mutilator, a Golang SAML IdP, in a couple weeks. It's self-contained (for now) so doesn't depend on AD or LDAP --- just Postgres --- and runs just fine in a tiny Docker container.
Wonder if and when we’ll see decent Excel/Word replacements from Amazon, perhaps coupled with a thin Linux distro. At that point you’d be able to completely do away with Microsoft in many organisations, and Amazon could simply gobble up those dollars. They’ve got enough money they could make it work.
Excel needs to go, better wait for it to fade, it is not a modern data analytics system, not at all.
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$288 comes from here: https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/pricing/ It looks like AD Connector is much less: https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/other-directories-pr...
I think you're looking at the Enterprise domain controller pricing. the Standard size (up to 30,000 objects) is 12 cents/hour for two controllers. $0.12 * 24 * 30 = $86.40/month.
I'd change the statement in my parent post, but I don't seem to be able to edit it.