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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
Fragmented identity and static credentials — stitched together with scripts 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
Managing thousands of bare-metal nodes, GPU clusters, and multi-tenant environments across multiple sites means fragmented identity and static credentials that nobody can keep up with — and every new site adds more keys, more secrets, and more exposure. Teleport eliminates standing privileges, and credentials that can be shared, lost, hardcoded, or stolen.
Secretless authentication
Every engineer, machine, workload, and AI agent authenticates without SSH keys, shared service accounts, or hardcoded tokens — so there are no static credentials across your nodes, BMCs, or automation pipelines to steal, share, or rotate.
JIT access that actually expires
Engineers and vendors request elevated access to the site or customer environment they need — expiring automatically when the task closes, eliminating standing access and the manual revocation burden that comes with it.
Full visibility, no anonymous actors
Every session is attributed to a cryptographic identity, eliminating anonymous actors across your sites and tenant environments — giving you one complete record for compliance evidence, forensic investigation, and customer accountability.
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 clouds, neoclouds, 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.
Securing infrastructure at scale, accelerating engineers, and simplifying compliance
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Credentials multiply faster than any team can track them
A single GPU node can involve multiple access surfaces — host SSH, DPU SSH, and out-of-band management interfaces (BMC) — often each with separate credentials or supplier VPNs. 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 PRIVILEGESCredentials that don't exist can't multiply.
Engineers authenticate once with SSO/MFA to get just-in-time, least-privilege access to the systems they’re approved for (host and DPU). Every session is scoped to exactly what the task requires and expires automatically when it's done. No static credentials anywhere in your infrastructure. Engineers move fast — and nothing persists after the task is done.
Break-glass access and standing privileges left open after incidents
When a node goes down at 2am, engineers need immediate access across the right site, cluster, and customer environment — fast. Access happens through ad-hoc Slack messages, email approvals, or shared break-glass credentials. When the incident closes, that access rarely gets revoked. Standing privileges accumulate across bare-metal nodes and customer environments long after the task is complete.
Remove the friction. Engineers get in fast — and standing privileges don't accumulate.
Engineers and vendors request access through existing ITSM or collaboration tools — such as Slack or ServiceNow — with automated approvals when appropriate, and human approval in seconds, not hours. Every request, approval, and session is logged in one place giving auditors a complete record from request to expiry.
Third-party access today means 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 too slow and too risky. Provider engineers need access to customer environments for support, but 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.
Every third party gets an identity — not a shared VPN or a shared 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. Every interaction recorded, every session attributed to an identity, and every session limited to only the work required - then expired.
Your logs exist. They're just spread across too many places to be useful.
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 still produces incomplete evidence. SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIS2 auditors flag exactly these gaps.
One audit trail across infrastructure
Teleport records every session with command-level logging tied to a cryptographically verifiable identity. When a customer asks who accessed their environment, you have an immediate answer — not a weeks-long evidence collection process. Teleport unifies the identity chain from IdP through infrastructure access into one investigation view. AI-generated timelines reconstruct incidents in minutes — no stitching evidence from siloed logs.
Every site you stand up is another identity silo to manage
As data centers scale from one site to dozens, engineers juggle per-site credentials, per-region clusters, and inconsistent access policies. A team member moving between NA and EU data centers hits a different credential model at every site — with no consistent identity layer underneath any of it.
Unified infrastructure identity, however fast you grow
Engineers stop juggling per-site credentials and separate logins for every regional data center — one identity follows them everywhere. Every new 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.
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. Teams report up to 80% less time spent on access troubleshooting and audit preparation.
Unified access everywhere
Unify access across bare-metal nodes, GPU clusters, Kubernetes, databases, and customer environments — through a single proxy with one audit trail.
Unified access everywhere
Unify access across bare-metal nodes, GPU clusters, Kubernetes, databases, and customer environments — through a single proxy with one audit trail.
Zero standing privileges
Just-in-time access with auto-expiring privileges. Approvals via existing ITSM or collaboration tools. No engineer or vendor retains access to a node after the ticket closes.
Zero standing privileges
Just-in-time access with auto-expiring privileges. Approvals via existing ITSM or collaboration tools. No engineer or vendor retains 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 leak, be shared, or be 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 leak, be shared, or be phished — for any identity type.
Complete audit trail
Session recording with AI-generated summaries. Every action, every node, every identity — stored for compliance evidence, customer accountability, and incident investigation.
Complete audit trail
Session recording with AI-generated summaries. Every action, every node, every identity — stored for compliance evidence, customer accountability, and incident investigation.
Regulatory requirements
Meeting SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, and FedRAMP 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
Your data never leaves your infrastructure
For operators with data residency mandates, air-gapped environments, or regional sovereignty requirements, Teleport deploys fully self-hosted inside your own VPC or data center — with no SaaS dependency. 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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DOCS, GUIDES & DEEP DIVES
Common questions about infrastructure identity, access control, and security for data centers and GPU clouds
Is Teleport a data center security solution?
Yes. Teleport is an infrastructure identity platform for data center environments of all sizes and regional distributions. Teleport replaces fragmented credential models and static credentials across data centers with strong identity — protecting infrastructure from identity-based attacks while accelerating engineering and simplifying compliance.
How does Teleport secure data centers?
Teleport secures data center environments by establishing a unified, cryptographically-backed identity layer across all infrastructure and identities — humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. Teleport eliminates static credentials with short-lived certificates issued after authentication through your identity provider, enforces least privileged access that expires automatically, attributes every action to a real identity, and unifies policy across every site, region, and tenant from one control plane.
What data center compliance standards does Teleport support?
Teleport provides identity, session recording, and audit controls that support compliance across a wide range of regulatory requirements including SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, DORA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and more.
Does Teleport secure GPU and AI compute infrastructure?
Yes. Teleport is trusted by GPU clouds and AI compute providers to secure bare-metal nodes, Kubernetes clusters, and multi-tenant environments at scale. Teleport replaces SSH keys and shared credentials with short-lived certificates and cryptographic identity — eliminating standing privileges across GPU cloud and multi-tenant environments. Data center operators provision isolated environments for each tenant using Trusted Clusters with role-based policies. Every action is tied to a strong identity with comprehensive audit trails.
Does Teleport secure cloud and IaaS?
Yes. Teleport secures cloud and IaaS environments by providing unified infrastructure identity across virtualized infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud services. Teleport replaces long-lived passwords and keys with cryptographic identity and short-lived certificates, enforces role-based policies, enables tenant isolation through Trusted Clusters, and generates comprehensive audit trails across multi-tenant environments.
Does Teleport secure neocloud and AI-specific cloud providers?
Yes. Teleport secures neocloud and AI-specific cloud providers by extending unified identity and access controls to multi-tenant GPU and AI-optimized environments distributed across regions. Teleport issues short-lived certificates for humans, machines, and AI agents to eliminate static credentials and standing privileges. Trusted Clusters enable neocloud providers to isolate each tenant's environment while centralizing policy enforcement across multiple data center locations — with unified audit trails that align with compliance and regulatory requirements.