We are thrilled to announce that Okta Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) is now available as an AWS private cloud deployment option.
Authorization is where Authentication was a decade ago. We aim to simplify Authorization for developers, just as we did with Authentication. In early March, we made significant progress toward this goal by launching Okta Fine Grained Authorization. Okta FGA is an authorization service that enables developers to implement centralized, flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use authorization.
Okta FGA has two deployment options: public cloud and private cloud. The public cloud option is a multi-tenant SaaS service available in three geographies: the United States, Europe, and Australia, offering a highly available multi-region deployment. The private cloud option, on the other hand, is tailored for enterprises seeking dedicated resources. Okta FGA Private Cloud leverages the same architecture principles that have been battle-tested with Auth0 for over two years.
Benefits of Running Okta FGA in Private Cloud
- Higher RPS: Private cloud instances are optimized for high request-per-second (RPS) performance, scaling up to five times the average RPS based on your application’s needs.
- Data Residency and Compliance: Deploy your Private Cloud environment in any AWS region to help meet specific data residency and compliance requirements. Initial regions include the US, Germany, Ireland, the UK, France, Japan, India, Singapore, Australia, and Brazil.
- Reduced Latency: Choose the AWS region closest to your application servers, which will significantly reduce latency for faster access control checks.
- Multi-Geography Deployments: Businesses can replicate the same authorization data across multiple regions worldwide, allowing them to maintain low-latency authorization services even for globally distributed applications. For example, a company can have the same data in the US, EU, and Australia, have their authorization data replicated across all regions, and have their applications routed to the closest region.
- Automated, Hardened Release: Benefit from automated weekly releases that are previously validated in Okta’s public cloud deployments.
- Centralized Management: Manage both private and public cloud instances seamlessly from the Okta FGA dashboard.
The availability of Okta FGA in Private Cloud on AWS marks another significant milestone in our vision of running Okta FGA across all major cloud providers and regions. Stay tuned for further updates, and Contact Us to learn more.
