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Cloud Shell also offers additional, complementary features; see documentation link immediately above.
3) Azure REST API
You can develop an application to interact with Azure to manage resources on your behalf via HTTP operations with Azure API
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service endpoints. More information is available in this documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/rest/api/azure/
Note that applications require configuration of an authentication token that represents appropriate role-based permissions. See documentation above or contact the DTI team at help@c3dti.ai.
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