Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources in: ... Internal resources, such as apps on your corporate network and intranet, along with any cloud apps developed by your own organization.

Does Azure replace Active Directory?

Azure AD is not a replacement for Active Directory. ... As you can see here Azure Active Directory is an identity and access management solution for hybrid or cloud-only implementations. It can extend the reach of your on-premises identities to any SaaS application hosted in any cloud.

Is Microsoft Active Directory the same as Azure Active Directory?

So Azure AD does not replace AD. AD is great at managing traditional on-premise infrastructure and applications. Azure AD is great at managing user access to cloud applications. They do different things with the area of overlap being user management.