Connecting .NET Web API hosted in Azure App Service with Azure SQL Database using managed identities

TL;DR - Azure has made managed identities so important that it is recommended to use them even when connecting an API hosted in App Service with an Azure SQL Database . This article explores how Azure has ensured that configuration stays secure by replacing traditional credentials stored in database connection strings to managed identities. 🗺️The context I completed the development of the first phase of the IdentityWebApi and tried to dev test the changes by hosting it and the related database