Supported Conjur Cloud authenticators

In addition to its default authenticator, Conjur Cloud supports other industry-standard authentication types. You can configure Conjur Cloud to use one or a combination of several authenticator types.

The following authenticator types are supported:

Authentication type

Description

authn Defines the Conjur Cloud Default Authenticator. Authentication for both users and hosts is based on an user ID / application identity (host id) respectively, as well as an API key. 
authn-iam

Enables an AWS resource to use its AWS IAM role to authenticate with Conjur Cloud.

authn-azure

Enables an Azure resource to authenticate with Conjur Cloud

authn-jwt

Enables an application to authenticate to Conjur Cloud using a JWT from a JWT Provider.

authn-gcp

Enables a Google Cloud Platform resource to authenticate with Conjur Cloud