Folks, I'm wondering if Azure Active Directory might be a suitable candidate for running our authentication and permissions.
We have a growing number of programs, services and mobile apps which currently perform authentication against a 1990s vintage database which contains users, passwords, permissions, etc. Our core services and data storage are moving to Azure, so is this could be a chance to replace the old system with Azure AD? I've been reading about Azure AD, but so far it's all marketing fluff and I can't get meaty technical details to decide if it's suitable. Can anyone with experience in this area give me a potted summary of the pros and cons. Perhaps it's expensive, or there are complicated dependencies, or something else I'm not aware of. Can Azure AD be integrated for single sign-in with popular social media accounts and Gmail or MSDN? *Greg K* P.S. Thanks to a hint from someone in here many months ago I did look into Auth0 <https://auth0.com/>, and I sanity checked it works great. Sadly, our CTO is prejudiced against a provider like Auth0 because "it doesn't match our usage model" (however, I'm going to keep this option alive).
