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Entra ID Workload Identities

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Entra ID Workload Identities

Workload Identities is Entra ID's product for managing non-human identities — apps, services, scripts — and the risks they create.

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What is a workload identity in Entra ID?

A non-human identity — an application (service principal), a managed identity, or a service principal for a federated external workload — that authenticates to Entra to call APIs. Workload identities outnumber users in…

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What does Entra Workload ID Premium add?

Conditional Access for workload identities, Identity Protection risk detection for service principals (leaked credentials, anomalous behaviour), access reviews for service principals in privileged roles, and app health…

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What is workload identity federation?

A way for an external workload — a GitHub Actions pipeline, a Kubernetes pod, another cloud's identity — to exchange its own token for an Entra token without storing an Entra secret. It removes the long-lived credential…

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