# Identity Provider | | An **Identity Provider** is a system entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for principals and also provides authentication services to relying applications within a federation or distributed network. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Identity provider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_provider) | ## Tools - [[Authentik]] - [[Auth0]] - [[Netlify Identity]] - [[Okta]] - [[AWS IAM]] - [[Authelia]]