5 min Azure AD service accounts
Remember 5 min Security Management Identity Azure
- System assigned management identity
- User assigned management identity
Now Lets look at: Governing Azure AD service accounts
There are three types of service accounts in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD):
- managed identities
- service principals
- user accounts employed as service accounts.
As you create these service accounts for automated use, they’re granted permissions to access resources in Azure and Azure AD.