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Challenge: Design identities and access for applications

Challenge: Design identities and access for applications

(upbeat music) - So again, let's go for another challenge, this time, about designing identities and access for applications in Azure. So what is the challenge now? So we have an Azure App Service web app that stores data at an Azure storage account and of course, we need to find a secure way to access that. We also have an on-prem virtual machine running an application that uses a SQL database on Azure so compute VM with a web application running on-prem and the database running on Azure. That SQL database is configured for Azure AD authentication only. So as we know SQL databases, they can work with SQL authentication, Azure AD only authentication or the mixed one, which is when we have the two possibilities. This one here only uses Azure AD authentication. Your Azure web app connects to a third-party API via an API key so the standard, you know, API key approach where they just give you this and every request, you…

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