Simons said Microsoft chose the name “Entra” because “it indicates an entry-way to new world of doing business.” It’s not meant to be a gate with restrictive access, he added. Microsoft is making Entra, and a new admin portal associated with it, available today. In terms of pricing, customers who want Entra will continue to pay per user per month for Azure AD; per active user per month for external identities; and per resource for permissions, Simons said. Verified ID is part of the base Azure AD paid platform, but a set of paid services that will run on top of it will be added at some point in the future, he said.
