Managed Identity
Managed identities provide an identity for applications to use when connecting to resources that support Microsoft Entra authentication.
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Service Principal
2. **Managed identity**: This type of service principal is used to represent a [[managed-identity]]. When a managed identity is enabled, a service principal representing that managed identity is created in your tenant. Service principals representing managed identities can be granted access and permissions, but can't be updated or modified directly.