Looking for a Simple and Robust Microsoft Entra Permissions Management Alternative?

The clock is ticking. 

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is heading off into the sunset on October 1, 2025. In less than two months, support disappears, data collection shuts down, and any existing deployments will be offboarded. If you’re still relying on it to keep tabs on who has access to what in your cloud infrastructure, it’s time to make a move.

This isn’t just a routine deprecation notice. It’s a shift that leaves a gaping hole in many cloud security strategies, particularly for teams managing multi-cloud identity risk across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The timing is inconvenient, at best. Welcome to Q3, when nobody wants to disrupt their infrastructure or their budget, for a last-minute permissions solution.

“We recommend that customers who have deployed the product [Microsoft Entra Permissions Management] begin planning for the transition and customers who have not deployed the product to refrain from deployment.”
- Joseph Dadzie, VP Product Management, Microsoft.

Let’s take a step back and look at how we got here.

Why Is Microsoft Entra Permissions Management Retiring?

Microsoft’s decision wasn’t random, nor was it a reflection on the need for the capability itself. Quite the opposite. Cloud access risk is a growing concern. But Microsoft has been reevaluating its portfolio, focusing on where it can differentiate, and letting go of adjacent services that might be better handled by specialist vendors.

The broader Entra suite remains intact and well-supported. Identity protection, governance, and workload identity are all still very much in play. But Permissions Management? That’s where Microsoft has chosen to bow out and let others step in. Translation: they’ve recognized the complexity of securing access across multi-cloud environments and decided they’re not the best ones to keep carrying that torch. Focused vendors like Trustle are.

What Does This Mean for Organizations?

If your team currently uses Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, or if it was penciled into your roadmap, it’s time to reevaluate. Not six months from now. Not in Q4, when things calm down. Now.

You’re looking at a tight window to assess the impact of this change, review your current architecture, and adopt a new approach without throwing everything out or into disarray. And yes, we know you’re already juggling IAM complexity, DevSecOps pipelines, compliance drift, service account sprawl, and probably AI enablement on top of it all, but this (alas) is the job.

What you need is a clean handoff. A replacement that’s simple, robust, and purpose-built to help you regain visibility, control privilege escalation, and actually implement least privilege access without setting your team’s hair on fire.

And no, it doesn’t have to involve a six-month deployment plan or a PhD in cloud entitlements.

A Better Way Forward

We’ve built a platform that handles exactly what Entra Permissions Management was supposed to do, and more. Designed by practitioners, not just theorists, it’s lightweight, intuitive, and fully cloud-native. Whether you’re in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or (more realistically) some messy mix of the three, Trustle gives you real-time insights into permissions, roles, and risk across every identity - human or machine.

Set it up in as little as 30 minutes. Really. No agents, no custom scripting, no hoping that a support ticket will get picked up by someone who’s actually touched a cloud console. We’ve engineered the system so security engineers, IAM admins, and cloud architects can all hit the ground running without additional training or vendor babysitting (though we’re here to help if you need us).

And yes, we cover the use cases that matter: least privileged access management enforcement, just-in-time access, zero standing privileges, service account access lifecycle management, international cybersecurity standards compliance, and ongoing access reviews. Even better? We actually make those things doable. No death-by-policy. No static charts gathering dust. Just a living, breathing access control environment that gets better over time.

Permissions Management ROI

Let’s talk brass tacks, because organizations are going to have to justify any extra spend, and security solutions don’t exist in a vacuum. Organizations have budgets, deadlines, and stakeholders who want to know why they should care. So here’s the business case:

Eliminating standing privileges reduces the blast radius of breaches. Automating access reviews cuts down audit prep from days to minutes. Proactive identification of overprivileged accounts stops configuration drift before it becomes a ticket, a fire drill, or a headline. And all of it adds up to real, measurable security posture improvement when 2025 cybersecurity statistics are making headlines and on the minds of the C-Suite.

Plus, you’re not just replacing what Entra Permissions Management used to do; you’re upgrading your cloud infrastructure entitlement management posture. Our platform gives you more visibility, more automation, and far more simplicity, without bloating your stack or shuffling roles to keep it operational. This is why Microsoft is leaving it to vendors like us, because this is what we do best.

In other words, you’re not just plugging a hole. You’re levelling up, with extras like Slack and Teams integration, continuous risk-based access evaluation, unified visibility across multiple cloud environments, and automated privilege segmentation that actually enforces zero trust in record time. Enta doesn’t support JIT access requests and approvals, or SaaS applications, like GitHub.

Why us?

At Trustle, we’re developers and defenders. We’ve sat on both sides of the table, trying to navigate complex identity ecosystems, untangle permission sprawl, and stop cloud drift before it turned into a security nightmare.

We know how painful this can get when vendors overpromise, tools underdeliver, and your team’s stuck doing the hard work with duct tape and spreadsheets. So we built Trustle to be different: a tool that simplifies access security without compromising on control. And in a world where AI, ephemeral infrastructure, and decentralized teams are pushing traditional IAM models to their breaking point, Trustle’s dynamic access approach just makes more sense, and we make everything easier than managing from within the consoles.

Getting Started

October 1st might feel like it’s a way off, but in cloud security terms, it’s right around the corner. If you wait until the end of September to replace Entra Permissions Management, you’ll be making decisions under pressure, and that’s rarely where good architecture comes from.

The clock is ticking.

The good news is, you don’t have to scramble. A better alternative is ready and waiting, and it won’t hijack your roadmap to get started. If you want to talk through your current setup, see how Trustle compares, or just need a second opinion on your access control strategy, reach out. We’re happy to help.

Your cloud isn’t getting simpler. But your permissions management can.

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