| [Authentication options](./authentication.md)| Authentication is the act of verifying a user's identity. Authorization, by contrast, is the specification of access rights and privileges to resources for a given identity. An identity is a collection of information about a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_(computer_security)" target="_blank">principal</a>, and a principal can be either an individual user or a service.<br/><br/>By default, you authenticate your own calls to Azure AI services using the subscription keys provided; this is the simplest method but not the most secure. The most secure authentication method is to use managed roles in Microsoft Entra ID. To learn about this and other authentication options, see [Authenticate requests to Azure AI services](./authentication.md).|
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