Episode 77 - Azure by the Numbers

by Evan Basalik May 13, 2015

Azure is all about scale and Evan has pulled some interesting numbers and statistics about Azure that we discuss on this show.

As of March 26, 2015, there are 4.9M organizations are using Azure AD
There are more than 430M identities in Azure Active Directory:
The majority of the 4.9M are smaller businesses and have < 500 employees.
A subset of the 4.9M organizations are medium/large and have 500 or more employees. Because these organizations are comparatively large, they account for 93% of identities in Azure AD.

55% of them are using Azure AD Sync (or its predecessor DirSync) to provision identities in Azure AD.
2% of them are using a 3rd party cloud identity service (i.e. Centrify, Okta, OneLogin, etc.) for provisioning.
Another 2% use a wide variety of home grown and custom provisioning tools.
The remainder are using one of our portals (Azure or Office365) and PowerShell scripts for provisioning.

There are over 1B authentications per day to Azure AD
56% are cloud only authentications and completed directly by Azure AD
32% are authentications completed by an ADFS server deployed at a customer site
7% are authentications completed using a password that was synced from on-premises using our Password Sync feature
Just over 1% are authentications completed by syndication partners (i.e. large companies who resell Microsoft services)
Just under 1% are authentications completed by a 3rd third party federation server (i.e. CA Site Minder, Ping, etc.)
Just under 1% are authentications completed by a 3rd party identity service (i.e. a company like Centrify, Okta, OneLogin, etc.)
The remaining 1% are completed with a variety of open source and custom solutions.