Authenticating with Microsoft Entra ID
Azure Machine Learning uses Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)) for authentication. Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service. It’s designed to help organizations manage user identities and access to resources in the cloud and on-premises.
When you are logged in to the Azure portal, the same account is used to directly authenticate you to your Azure Machine Learning Studio session. So, anyone working on your ML project needs to be part of the Microsoft Entra ID workspace. That does not mean that only employees have access to the workspace. Microsoft Entra ID supports two types of users: members and guests. Members are users that are created within the Microsoft Entra ID tenant, while guests can be users that belong to other Microsoft Entra tenants or are personal accounts such as Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, and so on. But as soon as you create or invite...