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Microsoft Entra Workload Identities now generally available

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Ilana Smith
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Nov 28, 2022
As the growth of cloud continues, more workloads are moving to the cloud and new enterprise software solutions are being deployed natively in the cloud. This has resulted in massive growth in identit...
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Namyoon
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Nov 30, 2022

cwe1ss Thank you for your questions.

You can still create managed identities or service principles for free. Three premium features, Conditional access, Identity Protection and Access Reviews, require licenses. You can license a subset of identities as needed. If you need a license to use any of those features for your service principals, you will get an in-product message that leads you to the process of purchasing.