Just-In-Time Access | Zero Standing Privilege | Cloudanix
Eliminate standing access across cloud consoles, databases, VMs, Kubernetes, SaaS, CI/CD pipelines, and AI coding agents. One engine, one audit trail, auto-revoke.
Standing access is the top cloud attack vector. A leaked key or over-privileged identity gives an attacker persistent reach across your infrastructure. Just-In-Time (JIT) access eliminates this by replacing permanent privileges with a simple lifecycle: request → approve → time-boxed grant → auto-revoke. An engineer (or CI/CD pipeline, or AI coding agent) asks for a specific privilege on a specific target for a specific duration. An approver clicks Approve in Slack or Teams (or it auto-approves per policy). Cloudanix grants the access for the requested window, then removes it automatically. Every step is identity-stamped and audited. No standing privilege survives.
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Most JIT tools handle one access type. Cloudanix governs seven — from cloud consoles to AI agents — with the same request → approve → provision → revoke lifecycle, the same multi-level approval engine, and the same audit trail.
Time-boxed AWS, Azure, GCP access through your existing SSO. No new portal.
Keyless, identity-stamped access. No shared passwords, no jumpbox.
Short-lived SSH certificates. No static keys. Auto-revoked sessions.
Ephemeral kubeconfig for any cluster — including private ones.
Time-boxed app access through your IDP. License optimization built in.
Ephemeral credentials for CI/CD, Lambda, ECS, and K8s pods.
Scoped cloud access for AI coding agents via MCP. Human-in-the-loop.
Just-In-Time Access
Standing access is the largest contributor to cloud breaches. 80% of successful attacks involve compromised or over-privileged credentials. The problem isn't that people have access — it's that access exists when nobody's using it. A leaked key at 2 AM gives an attacker the same reach as your most senior engineer at 2 PM. Cloudanix JIT replaces this with time-boxed grants that exist only when actively needed — and auto-revoke the moment the window expires. One engine covers cloud consoles, databases, VMs, Kubernetes, SaaS, CI/CD pipelines, and AI coding agents.
Built for Real-World Access Challenges
Not another PAM tool. Cloudanix JIT is built for cloud-native teams that need speed, security, and audit — without forcing engineers into a new workflow.
Engineers keep using the same AWS SSO portal, the same IDE for databases, the same kubectl for clusters. JIT is invisible until they need access they don't have.
Auto-approve read-only access. One approver for staging. Quorum of three for production admin. Different sensitivity, different workflow — all configurable per role.
AWS IAM Identity Center, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, Okta, JumpCloud — one JIT engine governs all of them. Same lifecycle, same audit, same policy.
The same engine that governs your engineers also governs your CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes service accounts, and AI coding agents. Non-human identities are first-class citizens.
Every request, approval, grant, session, and revocation is logged with the real human identity — not just the federated role name. Correlates with CloudTrail, Activity Log, and Audit Log.
Request access now for an incident, or schedule it for a maintenance window next Tuesday at 2 AM. Both go through the same approval flow and auto-revoke.
Slack · Microsoft Teams · Cloudanix Console
Developers don't need to context-switch to request access. Ask for a role directly from Slack, Microsoft Teams, or the Cloudanix Console — approvers respond inline with one click, and access is provisioned in seconds. No tickets, no waiting, no new tool to learn.
Customer voice
Managing privileged access to our AWS environment was once one of our biggest security concerns. With Cloudanix JIT, access is now temporary, audited, and automatically revoked — giving us a 100% reduction in privileged-access exposure without slowing our engineering team down. As a marketplace connecting more than 50 financial institutions, that level of confidence is essential.
Seven Flavors of JIT
Each surface has its own grant mechanics, approval workflow, and audit trail — but they all share the same engine, the same policy system, and the same console. Pick the one that matches your access challenge.
Time-boxed AWS, Azure, or GCP console access through your existing SSO. Cloudanix flips the IDP assignment for the granted window — engineers use the same portal, same bookmark, same CLI. No new tool.
Explore Cloud JITNo jumpbox. No shared passwords. No mystery queries. Short-lived, identity-stamped access to databases in private subnets — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle — via your IDE. Every query logged.
Explore Database JITKeyless SSH into any virtual machine. Short-lived certificates replace static SSH keys. Sessions are recorded, identity-stamped, and auto-revoked. Works across AWS EC2, Azure VMs, and GCP instances.
Explore VM JITEphemeral kubeconfig for any cluster — EKS, AKS, GKE, even private clusters. Temporary RBAC bindings scoped to namespace and role. No standing cluster-admin for anyone.
Explore Kubernetes JITTime-boxed access to your SaaS catalog through your IDP. Grant temporary access to Datadog, PagerDuty, Salesforce, or any SAML/OIDC app — auto-revoked when the window closes.
Explore SaaS JITZero standing access for non-human identities. Govern CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes pods, Lambda functions, ECS tasks, and service accounts with policy-pre-approved, time-bounded credentials via SDK.
Explore Agentic JITGive Claude Code, Cursor, or Kiro the credentials they need — not the keys to the kingdom. Short-lived, scoped access via MCP with human-in-the-loop approval and full audit trail.
Explore Coding Agent JITYour questions answered.
Get clarity on Just-In-Time (JIT) Access — how it works, why standing privileges are dangerous, and how Cloudanix implements zero standing privilege across seven access surfaces.
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