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Community Blog Sole vendor headquartered in APEC to be recognized: Alibaba Cloud Named in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for Its IDaaS

Sole vendor headquartered in APEC to be recognized: Alibaba Cloud Named in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for Its IDaaS

Alibaba Cloud has been recognized in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for its cloud-native Identity as a Service (IDaaS), making it the only vendor headquartered in APEC.

Gartner® recently released its 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management report. Alibaba Cloud was recognized for its cloud-native Identity as a Service (IDaaS), making it the Sole vendor headquartered in APEC to be recognized in the last five years. IDaaS provides centralized identity management capabilities for enterprise customers—whether operating in the Chinese mainland, expanding globally, or pursuing "Go China" strategies.

In the era of AI and hybrid cloud, identity has become the golden key for attackers. The compromise of a single legitimate identity—whether an employee, a non-human identity (NHI), or an AI agent—can allow an attacker to bypass traditional defenses and silently exfiltrate data. Alibaba Cloud IDaaS is built for enterprise-grade security, establishing a trusted identity foundation with three core capabilities:

Unified Identity Governance

Alibaba Cloud IDaaS is one of the few cloud-native Identity Access Management (IAM) platforms worldwide capable of managing human identities (employees/partners), NHIs, and AI agents.
● Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support: A unified identity hub centralizes identities and access policies across Alibaba Cloud, third-party clouds, and on-premises systems, providing full coverage for the modern enterprise's digital identity landscape.
● High-efficiency automation: Deep integration with on-premises identity sources such as Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), software as a service (SaaS) applications, and self-managed applications enables automated identity lifecycle management—from employee onboarding and role-based access assignment to entitlement revocation upon offboarding.

Deep Cloud-native Integration

● Simplified cloud identity management: IDaaS is deeply integrated with Alibaba Cloud's cloud-native technology stack, including Resource Access Management (RAM), API Gateway, Function Compute (FC), and Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK). This allows fine-grained authorization based on OAuth 2.0 client credentials to be automatically enforced within the service invocation chain, eliminating the need for additional gateways or proxies. This approach moves beyond the bolt-on, siloed deployment model of traditional IAM.
● Built-in security capabilities: IDaaS supports passwordless authentication standards such as Fast Identity Online 2 (FIDO2) and Web Authentication (WebAuthn), eliminating the risk of static credential compromise at its source. By natively supporting open protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0), Open Authorization (OAuth) 2.0, and OpenID Connect (OIDC), it seamlessly connects on-premises systems, cloud applications, and third-party SaaS to provide a consistent single sign-on (SSO) experience.

An Identity Management Solution for the AI Era

Designed for the AI era, IDaaS provides secure authentication for both human and non-human identities. It enables end-to-end AccessKey-less management, authentication for AI agents, fine-grained authorization for multi-cloud platform (MCP) services, and dynamic management of large model API keys.
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● Cross-platform, cross-region, and multi-cloud machine credential management: IDaaS integrates with diverse identity sources, including Public-Key Cryptography Standards #7 (PKCS#7), OIDC tokens, private certificate authority (CA) certificates, and the Device Code Flow. It unifies machine and service identities from heterogeneous environments, mapping them to consistent enterprise roles and access policies.
● End-to-end AccessKey-less management: In complex scenarios, fixed AccessKeys pose significant security risks. IDaaS offers an AccessKey-less solution that replaces permanent credentials with temporary tokens issued on demand, ensuring a higher level of security across the entire service chain.
● Management of large model API keys: When an application runs on an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance or in an ACK cluster, IDaaS automatically recognizes its native identity (e.g., OIDC token) and uses it to request a temporary Security Token Service (STS) token from RAM. This eliminates the need to embed AccessKeys in code. IDaaS can also issue JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for accessing API gateways, AI gateways, or applications, enabling AI workloads to operate without static API keys.
● Fine-grained access control: Based on identity context such as instance ID, service name, or GitHub branch name, IDaaS can enforce dynamic authorization policies to ensure that the right entity can access the right resource at the right time.

Today, Alibaba Cloud IDaaS serves hundreds of multinational and globally expanding enterprises, ensuring that every login and API call is both efficient and secure.

Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Brian Guthrie, Nathan Harris 11 November 2025
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