MicrosoftSince the split of IAM and AAD for permissions, partly agreed. Entra ID still relies on an Azure tenant, aswell as M365 do rely on an Azure tenant.
What split? AAD is the directory service that delivers identities and rights management. IAM is a concept.
Entra ID does not rely on an Azure tenant. This is misleading. What you call an Azure tenant is really an Azure AD tenant. It is THE key component sitting at the very top of all Microsoft services, be it M365 or Azure services (which are tied to subscriptions that are tied to an AAD tenant). Which is also the reason why I believe it makes sense to call it Azure AD.
But I guess this is part of the reason they rename Entra, because it creates confusion how all these services depend on each other.
In the future, the Entra ID tenant will be the root of it all that Microsoft 365 and Azure subscriptions are tied to.
But I'm not convinced that this actually solves any confusion, because the complexity stays the same. At least with the name AAD it was clear that you can't have Azure services (and therefore subscriptions) without an Azure directory and that they belong together.
