Okta Fine Grained Authorization is now available in private cloud on AWS

You can now deploy fine-grained authorization (FGA) in several AWS regions with high availability and requests per second because Okta Fine Grained Authorizationis 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, an authorization service that enables developers to implement centralized, flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use authorization.

Offering public and private cloud deployment

Okta Fine Grained Authorization 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. On the other hand, the private cloud option is tailored for enterprises seeking dedicated resources. Okta Fine Grained Authorization Private Cloud leverages the same architectural principlesthat were battle tested with Auth0 for over two years.

Benefits of running Okta Fine Grained Authorization in private cloud

Okta Fine Grained Authorization in private cloud offers a multitude of benefits, including:

• 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 U.S., 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 U.S., EU, and Australia, replicate their authorization data across all regions, and route their applications 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 Fine Grained Authorization dashboard.

The availability of Okta Fine Grained Authorization in private cloud on AWS marks another significant milestone in our vision of running Okta Fine Grained Authorization across all major cloud providers and regions. Stay tuned for further updates, and contact usto learn more.