Azure Maps Shared Key authentication is not working?

Question

I am following this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/azure-maps-authentication#shared-key-authentication

and I've a "Shared key" as suggested by article:
And I am trying to hit the URL as mentioned in the article:

https://atlas.microsoft.com/mapData/upload?api-version=1.0&dataFormat=zip&subscription-key={Your-Azure-Maps-Subscription-key}

However I am getting following exception:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidKey",
        "message": "The provided key was incorrect or the account resource does not exist.",
        "target": "WWW-Authenticate",
        "details": []
    }
}

Highlighted part is the key I am using..

Am I missing any step?

Answer 1

A couple of things to try:

1. Double check your URL, make sure you didn't accidentally clip off a character at the start of end of key (most common cause of this issue). Also check that there aren't any characters from the placeholder text, like the curly braces.
2. Try the key with a different service, like one of the search APIs. I see you are trying to use the map data upload API which is part of the Azure Maps Creator platform, and I believe it has more complexities around data access and security. Generally, shared key based auth shouldn't be used with anything that does a "write" operation.