Introducing Auth0 Extend: The new way to extend your SaaS

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14 pointsramirond2 comments

I'm not sure I understand who this is for.

I get that Auth0 is filling a niche (a rather large one) where companies don't want to implement and run their own authentication and authorization, though I still don't completely understand why not.

But it seems this is Auth0's version of running a lambda, but why would I choose their service over AWS, Google, Azure, etc.

They seem to be headed toward an a la carte firebase. Is that the goal? Simpler than lambda, but less complete than firebase?

Auth0 already have 'webtask' https://webtask.io/, which is a more direct competitor to Lambda.

This is built on top of that to help you build extensibility into your product, with a code editor component and the ability to run user extensions isolated in the cloud (via webtask).

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