Authzed
Permissions-as-a-service built on SpiceDB, the open-source Zanzibar-inspired permissions database.
About
Authzed is a permissions-management company founded in 2020 by Jake Moshenko, Joey Schorr, and Jimmy Zelinskie, distributed-systems veterans from CoreOS and Red Hat. It is the creator of SpiceDB, the open-source database implementing all three core design principles from Google's Zanzibar paper: strong consistency, global replication, and a relationship-based permissions model.
Authzed offers permissions as a managed service so application teams can implement fine-grained access control without building it themselves, with features like a centralized schema and tunable consistency per authorization check. It raised a $12M Series A in June 2024 led by General Catalyst, with Work-Bench, Y Combinator, and Amplify Partners participating, bringing total funding to $15.8M and funding an expansion toward small and mid-market customers.
What it can do
- Zanzibar-style relationship-based access control (ReBAC)
- SpiceDB open-source permissions database with strong consistency
- Centralized permission schema with per-check consistency tuning
- Managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options
- Fine-grained authorization for any object in an application
Setup
Create an account on authzed.com for the managed service, or self-host the open-source SpiceDB binary or container.
Prerequisites
An application schema describing users, objects, and relationships; an API token or a self-hosted SpiceDB instance.
Use cases
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