Announcing the General Availability of Single Sign-On (SSO) on Zilliz Cloud
As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, secure access to data infrastructure becomes both more critical and more complex. Identity and Access Management (IAM) has emerged as a foundation for safeguarding sensitive information, ensuring compliance, and streamlining operations. Single Sign-On (SSO) addresses these needs by centralizing authentication, reducing password sprawl, and giving employees seamless access to the tools they use every day.
Over the past several months, we’ve partnered closely with enterprise customers to design, test, and refine SSO for Zilliz Cloud. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of SSO integration, bringing enterprise-grade identity management to Zilliz Cloud so your teams can deploy and scale vector databases with confidence.
Why SSO Matters for Enterprise AI
In these conversations with customers, one theme stood out: identity management must scale as quickly as the AI infrastructure it protects. Password sprawl weakens security, fragmented authentication slows teams down, and compliance requirements continue to become more stringent.
From this feedback, three core needs emerged:
Security & Compliance: Centralized policies and audit-ready access controls.
Seamless Integration: Direct connectivity with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and other IdPs.
Fast Deployment: Guided configuration that avoids custom coding and minimizes IT overhead.
With today’s GA release, Zilliz Cloud meets these needs with a production-ready, enterprise-grade SSO solution, designed for the scale of modern AI.
Enterprise-Grade SSO Features Now Available
🔐 Enterprise-Grade Security: Leverage your existing IdP's security policies and multi-factor authentication capabilities
⚡ Native IdP Support: Out-of-the-box integration with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Google Workspace, plus configurable support for custom providers
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🚀 Simple Setup: Complete configuration through the Zilliz Cloud console—no IT overhead required
📊 Centralized Management: Maintain consistent user lifecycle management across your entire technology stack
How It Works: Enterprise Architecture You Can Trust
Zilliz Cloud SSO implements the SAML 2.0 standard with enterprise-grade security. When users initiate login, authentication requests are securely redirected to your corporate IdP, which validates credentials and returns a secure token to establish an authenticated session. This architecture ensures that sensitive authentication never leaves your corporate environment while providing seamless access to your vector database infrastructure.
Figure: IdP ↔ Zilliz Cloud SSO workflow
Getting Started with SSO Is Simple
SSO on Zilliz Cloud is available now for all enterprise customers. Join the growing number of organizations using Zilliz Cloud to power your AI initiatives with enterprise-grade security and seamless access management.
Ready to enable SSO? The setup process takes just minutes:
Log in to Zilliz Cloud
Navigate to Organization → Settings → SSO
Select your IdP and follow the guided setup
👉 For detailed instructions, check out the SSO Documentation.
👉 Have questions about implementation? Our support team is here to help.
👉 For more details on Zilliz Cloud security and compliance practices, visit the Zilliz Trust Center.
More Than SSO: Enterprise-Ready Features in Zilliz Cloud
SSO is just one part of what makes Zilliz Cloud the most secure and performant vector database service. In our latest release, we also introduced autoscaling (scale up and down), audit logs, and the Milvus 2.6 private preview, along with other enterprise-ready capabilities. Check out our launch blog for the full details.
Built on Milvus, Zilliz Cloud delivers a fully managed experience with:
Elastic scaling & cost efficiency – One-click deployment, serverless autoscaling, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Advanced AI search – Vector, full-text, and hybrid (sparse + dense) search with metadata filtering, dynamic schema, and multi-tenancy.
Natural language querying – MCP server support for intuitive queries without complex APIs.
Enterprise-grade reliability & security – 99.95% SLA, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, GDPR compliance, HIPAA readiness, RBAC, BYOC, and now audit logs.
Global availability – Deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure with sub-100ms latency worldwide.
Seamless migration – Built-in tools to move from Pinecone, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, or on-prem Milvus.
Together, these capabilities make Zilliz Cloud the most complete and production-ready foundation for enterprise AI applications.
Yuqi WangYuqi Wang is a Product Manager at Zilliz, where she leads product development for Zilliz Cloud offerings, cloud migration services, and vector lake solutions that power AI-native workloads. She brings a strong background across the modern data stack—from ingestion and warehousing to BI—as well as hands-on experience building generative AI products. Yuqi is passionate about transforming complex data and AI technologies into simple, scalable, and user-centric solutions.
- Why SSO Matters for Enterprise AI
- Enterprise-Grade SSO Features Now Available
- How It Works: Enterprise Architecture You Can Trust
- Getting Started with SSO Is Simple
- More Than SSO: Enterprise-Ready Features in Zilliz Cloud
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