# 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. |
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| | wikipedia:: [Identity provider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_provider) |
## Tools
- [[Authentik]]
- [[Auth0]]
- [[Netlify Identity]]
- [[Okta]]
- [[AWS IAM]]
- [[Authelia]]