News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Building Permissions. Parent comment

Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by TheNewsIsHere on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:02AM (#36476232)
I don’t know one way or the other. OP claimed elsewhere in this threat that Zanzibar is used to manage authorization records for services like Google Drive and YouTube.

But as far as Zanzibar itself, it’s not something Google makes available externally.

Having played in all the major (and common) sandboxes (so not like, Oracle), the GCP, Azure, and AWS permission systems are all fairly similar. They each have their foibles but their conceptual designs are all fairly similar. But that’s not a criticism: anyone designing that kind of IAM service really isn’t going to end up with something that different given the goals involved.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by torgard on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:58AM (#36477372)
Zanzibar is their internal system, and they've released a paper describing it.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why it Shines at Buildi... by TheNewsIsHere on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:13AM (#36478695)
Did you mean to reply to a higher level comment? :)
[ Parent | on HN ]