DATA CENTERS
Unified Identity for Data Centers
Sites, racks, and nodes multiply fast. The demands on how you secure them multiply even faster. Teleport's unified identity layer keeps you ahead of all of it — every engineer, machine, workload, and AI agent across every site and tenant.
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THE PROBLEM
Data center infrastructure creates static credentials and siloed tools
When infrastructure grows fast, static credentials multiply across nodes, clusters, and sites faster than any team can track. SSH keys distributed via Ansible, Terraform, or other automation carry admin access and never expire. Nobody knows who owns a given key, whether the engineer who provisioned it still works there, or whether a vendor relationship that ended last quarter left credentials behind.
Built for the scale and complexity of modern data centers
Teleport's unified identity layer minimizes access paths by eliminating standing privileges and static credentials that can be shared, lost, hardcoded, or stolen — whether you're managing thousands of bare-metal nodes, GPU clusters, or multi-tenant environments across multiple sites.
Secretless authentication
Every engineer, machine, workload, and AI agent authenticates without SSH keys, shared service accounts, or hardcoded tokens.
JIT access that actually expires
Engineers and vendors request elevated access to the environment they need that expires automatically when the task ends, eliminating standing access and manual revocation.
Full visibility, no anonymous actors
Every session is attributed to a cryptographic identity, eliminating anonymous actors across sites and tenant environments — and providing you one complete record for compliance evidence, forensic investigation, and customer accountability.
Trusted for data center and GPU cloud infrastructure
COLOCATION & ENTERPRISE DATA CENTERS
Colocation operators and enterprise data centers
Multi-site operators managing thousands of racks across facilities where engineers need access to bare metal, BMCs, and network equipment, and every vendor and customer interaction needs a complete audit trail.
GPU & AI CLOUDS
GPU cloud, neocloud, and AI compute providers
Bare-metal GPU providers managing ephemeral nodes, heterogeneous hardware, and customer-rented clusters where machine identity and delegated customer access approvals are as critical as securing the engineers themselves.
MULTI-TENANT CLOUD & HOSTING
Managed cloud and hosting providers across regions
Cloud and hosting providers running multi-tenant infrastructure where tenant isolation, data residency, and a complete record of who accessed which customer environment are requirements, not features.
Secure infrastructure at scale, accelerate engineers, and simplify compliance
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Credentials multiply faster than any team can track them
At thousands of nodes across dozens of sites, juggling credentials across teams for every surface on every box creates a sprawl nobody can govern.
TELEPORT SOLUTION
SHORT-LIVED, TASK-BASED PRIVILEGESEliminate static credentials with just-in-time access
With Teleport, engineers authenticate once with SSO/MFA to get just-in-time, least-privileged access to the systems they’re approved for. Every session is scoped to exactly what the task requires and expires automatically when it's done, removing static keys and tokens from your infrastructure and allowing engineers to move fast.
Break-glass access and standing privileges left open after incidents
When a node goes down at 2:00AM, engineers need immediate access across the site, cluster, and customer environment — and fast. Access is granted through ad-hoc Slack messages, email approvals, or shared break-glass credentials, but may not be revoked after, causing standing privileges to accumulate across bare-metal nodes and customer environments long after the task is complete.
Accelerate and auto-expire privileged access
With Teleport, engineers and vendors can request access through existing ITSM or collaboration tools — such as Slack or ServiceNow — with automated or human approval in seconds. Every request, approval, and session is logged in one place giving auditors a complete record from request to expiry.
Third-party access requires shared VPNs or weeks of onboarding
When a node needs diagnosis, field technicians and third-party teams need temporary access, but onboarding them to your corporate IdP is slow and risky. When engineers need access to customer environments for support, customers have no visibility into who accessed their rented compute or when. Both happen today over shared VPNs and static credentials with no audit trail.
Third-party access with identity, not a shared VPN or key
Hardware vendors and contractors get what they need without weeks of onboarding or standing privileges left behind. When engineers need access to a customer environment, the customer approves it directly. Teleport ensures every third-party session is recorded, attributed to an identity, limited to only the work required, and then expired.
Existing logs are spread across systems
When a customer asks "who touched my environment and what did they do," the answer requires stitching together logs from per-site bastions, cloud providers, and identity tools — a process that takes weeks and produces incomplete evidence and audit gaps that SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIS2 assessors will flag.
One audit trail across infrastructure
Teleport records every session with command-level logging tied to a cryptographically verifiable identity, unifying the identity chain from IdP through infrastructure access into one investigation view. AI-generated timelines reconstruct incidents in minutes without manual evidence stitching from siloed logs. When a customer asks who accessed their environment, you have an immediate answer — not a weeks-long evidence collection process.
More sites create more identity silos to manage
As data centers scale from one site to dozens, engineers are required to juggle per-site credentials, per-region clusters, and inconsistent access policies. A team member moving between multiple data centers may hit a different credential model at every site with no consistent identity layer between them.
Unified infrastructure identity, however fast you grow
With Teleport, every site operates under the same consistent policy model, and with redundant proxies across regions, your identity layer stays available even when a site goes offline. Engineers no longer need to juggle per-site credentials and separate logins for every regional data center — one identity follows them everywhere.
How Teleport secures data center infrastructure at scale
When an engineer needs access to a bare-metal node or a remote site, Teleport authenticates them via their identity provider, issues a short-lived X.509 certificate limited to the minimum required role, and logs the full session at the command level.
The certificate expires automatically when the task is complete. No credentials are stored, rotated, or shared — and every action across every site and tenant is traceable to a cryptographic identity.
Unified access everywhere
Access with a single proxy and audit trail across bare-metal nodes, GPU clusters, Kubernetes, databases, and customer environments.
Unified access everywhere
Access with a single proxy and audit trail across bare-metal nodes, GPU clusters, Kubernetes, databases, and customer environments.
Zero standing privileges
Just-in-time access with auto-expiring privileges, approval workflows via existing ITSM or collaboration tools, and no standing access to a node after the ticket closes.
Zero standing privileges
Just-in-time access with auto-expiring privileges, approval workflows via existing ITSM or collaboration tools, and no standing access to a node after the ticket closes.
Cryptographic identity
Short-lived certificates for engineers, machines, workloads, and AI agents. No SSH keys, shared passwords, or secrets that can be leaked, shared, or phished for any identity type.
Cryptographic identity
Short-lived certificates for engineers, machines, workloads, and AI agents. No SSH keys, shared passwords, or secrets that can be leaked, shared, or phished for any identity type.
Complete audit trail
Detailed session recordings with AI-generated summaries that log every action, node, and identity — and are stored for compliance evidence, customer accountability, and incident investigation.
Complete audit trail
Detailed session recordings with AI-generated summaries that log every action, node, and identity — and are stored for compliance evidence, customer accountability, and incident investigation.
Regulatory requirements
Meet SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, and FedRAMP requirements for data centers
SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · NIS2
Audit evidence that exists before auditors ask for it
Every session is cryptographically attributed to a human or machine identity. Structured audit logs across SSH, Kubernetes, and databases reduce audit prep time by up to 80% and eliminate the need to stitch together evidence from separate tools.
FEDRAMP · NIST 800-53
FIPS 140-3 compliant binaries
Teleport Enterprise ships FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules, satisfying the baseline for federal and government-adjacent workloads including FedRAMP Moderate and High. Available as self-hosted deployment with no SaaS dependency.
SELF-HOSTED · DATA RESIDENCY · DORA
Data never leaves your infrastructure
For operators with data residency mandates, air-gapped environments, or regional sovereignty requirements, Teleport can deploy fully self-hosted inside your own VPC or data center with no SaaS dependency — ensuring authentication, audit logs, and session recordings never leave your infrastructure.
Teleport allows us to comply with the regulatory hurdles that come with running an international stock exchange. The use of bastion hosts, integration with our identity service and auditing capabilities give us a compliant way to access our internal infrastructure.
Brendan Germain
Systems Reliability Engineer
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FAQs: How Teleport secures data centers and GPU clouds
Yes. Teleport offers a self-hosted deployment that teams run inside their own environment, including air-gapped sites, which keeps identity and access data within the boundary that data-residency and sovereignty rules require. The same cryptographic identity and audit apply whether Teleport runs in a private data center or a regulated region.
Teleport connects data centers, colocation sites, and cloud regions under one unified identity layer using trusted clusters, so a single set of access rules and one audit log span every site. Engineers reach resources anywhere through the same control plane with short-lived cryptographic identity, and the platform runs multi-region with high availability for resilience across locations.
Yes. Teleport runs in a high-availability deployment across multiple regions with redundancy, so access to infrastructure stays available even if a site or region is degraded. Trusted clusters tie distributed locations into one identity layer, which gives operators resilient access and a single audit trail across data centers and cloud regions.
Yes. Teleport unifies access across data centers under one identity layer and connects sites through trusted clusters, so a neocloud operator runs consistent identity, least-privileged access, and audit across a growing set of locations.
Teleport scales identity through infrastructure-as-code and trusted clusters, so an operator adding a GPU or AI compute site extends the same cryptographic identity, access policy, and audit to that location rather than standing up a new access tool each time. Short-lived identity suits fleets that churn, and one control plane keeps access consistent as sites come online quickly.
Yes. Teleport reaches edge devices behind NAT and firewalls without a VPN, using an outbound tunnel from the device and short-lived cryptographic identity for each engineer connection. Access is least-privileged and recorded, so teams manage a distributed fleet through one control plane instead of exposing devices or running per-site VPNs.
Teleport manages edge Kubernetes access through one identity layer, giving each engineer and workload short-lived, least-privileged access to clusters on distributed devices with per-identity audit. Because devices connect outbound and identity is issued centrally, teams reach thousands of edge clusters through the same control plane rather than configuring access on each device.