A managed identity created as its own resource and attachable to many resources, meaning role assignments only need to be made once.
Also called User-assigned identity.
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Each book explains User-assigned managed identity in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Managed identity
Identity in Microsoft Entra given to an Azure resource so that no secret has to be stored. It comes in two kinds: user-assigned and system-assigned.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
Related terms
- SAMI
A system-assigned managed identity, which exists only as long as the single Azure resource it belongs to. To mirror Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, the logical server's SAMI must be turned on and set as the primary identity (for SQL Database a user-assigned identity can be used instead, in preview).