Service principal
Azure's identity for an application, created from an app registration, which software uses to sign in and call Azure APIs. ZopNight's recommended Azure connection is a service principal with a client secret; workload identity federation is the alternative with no secret to store. Why it matters: The role it is granted, and where, decides which subscriptions a cost tool can see.
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