User Assigned Identities

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Open Unified Identities › Non Human Identities, filter Providers to Azure Resource Management › User Assigned Identity, then select a row to open its details. A user-assigned identity is a standalone managed identity that Azure resources can run as.

User Assigned Identities Details

Details page contains the Risk and Exposure Point of the user-assigned identity and the Information pane.

You can analyze the object in the Graph by clicking the Graph » button next to the Information title.

Information

Information Pane contains Details.

A Tier 0 or Tier 2 badge on the right of the Information title shows the tier of the user-assigned identity.

Details

Details tab contains attributes below about the AZ user-assigned identity.

Attribute	Description
Name	The display name of the user-assigned identity with tenant suffix
Location	The Azure region where the user-assigned identity is deployed
Principal ID	The object ID of the service principal in Entra ID that backs this identity
Client ID	The client (application) ID associated with this identity
Tenant	The tenant the user-assigned identity belongs to
Resource Group	The resource group the user-assigned identity is associated with
Backing Service Principal	The Entra ID service principal that the user-assigned identity runs as

A user-assigned managed identity is an identity itself: it is backed by a service principal in Entra ID and can be assigned to multiple Azure resources.