How to call the Azure REST API from PowerShell

Normally we use SDKs to interact with Azure. Things like the Azure .NET SDK, the Azure PowerShell module, or the dozens of other SDKs listed here can be used. These SDKs provide a lot of helpful utilities and validation, but ultimately they will hit the Azure REST API once they need to phone home. Azure’s REST API provides this all-important foundation to write code against the platform.
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