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title: About Web Agent and PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud
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# About Web Agent and PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud

Advanced Identity Cloud simplifies the consumption of an identity platform. However, many organizations have business web applications and APIs deployed across multiple clouds, or on-premise. This guide provides an example of how to use Web Agent with Advanced Identity Cloud, without changing the architecture of the agent-based model.

The following image illustrates the flow of an inbound request to a website, through a Web Agent, and the agent's interaction with Advanced Identity Cloud to enforce resource-based policies.

![Web Agent enforces policies from Advanced Identity Cloud.](_images/web-agent-cloud.svg)

For information about Advanced Identity Cloud, refer to the [PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud documentation](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingoneaic/home.html).