diff --git a/papermill/abs.py b/papermill/abs.py
index 700164f5..2e86a0fa 100644
--- a/papermill/abs.py
+++ b/papermill/abs.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import io
 
 from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient
+from azure.identity import EnvironmentCredential
 
 
 class AzureBlobStore(object):
@@ -17,11 +18,13 @@ class AzureBlobStore(object):
         - write
     """
 
-    def _blob_service_client(self, account_name, sas_token):
+    def _blob_service_client(self, account_name, sas_token=None):
 
         blob_service_client = BlobServiceClient(
-            "{account}.blob.core.windows.net".format(account=account_name), sas_token
+            account_url="{account}.blob.core.windows.net".format(account=account_name),
+            credential=sas_token or EnvironmentCredential(),
         )
+
         return blob_service_client
 
     @classmethod
@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ def _split_url(self, url):
         see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-1  # noqa: E501
         abs://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/sascontainer/sasblob.txt?sastoken
         """
-        match = re.match(r"abs://(.*)\.blob\.core\.windows\.net\/(.*?)\/(.*)\?(.*)$", url)
+        match = re.match(r"abs://(.*)\.blob\.core\.windows\.net\/(.*?)\/([^\?]*)\??(.*)$", url)
         if not match:
             raise Exception("Invalid azure blob url '{0}'".format(url))
         else:
diff --git a/papermill/tests/test_abs.py b/papermill/tests/test_abs.py
index d5b2124c..1307e8fc 100644
--- a/papermill/tests/test_abs.py
+++ b/papermill/tests/test_abs.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+import os
 import unittest
 
 from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
-
+from azure.identity import EnvironmentCredential
 from ..abs import AzureBlobStore
 
 
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ def setUp(self):
         )
         self.abs = AzureBlobStore()
         self.abs._blob_service_client = Mock(return_value=self._blob_service_client)
+        os.environ["AZURE_TENANT_ID"] = "mytenantid"
+        os.environ["AZURE_CLIENT_ID"] = "myclientid"
+        os.environ["AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET"] = "myclientsecret"
 
     def test_split_url_raises_exception_on_invalid_url(self):
         with self.assertRaises(Exception) as context:
@@ -50,6 +54,15 @@ def test_split_url_splits_valid_url(self):
         self.assertEqual(params["blob"], "sasblob.txt")
         self.assertEqual(params["sas_token"], "sastoken")
 
+    def test_split_url_splits_valid_url_no_sas(self):
+        params = AzureBlobStore._split_url(
+            "abs://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/container/blob.txt"
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(params["account"], "myaccount")
+        self.assertEqual(params["container"], "container")
+        self.assertEqual(params["blob"], "blob.txt")
+        self.assertEqual(params["sas_token"], "")
+
     def test_split_url_splits_valid_url_with_prefix(self):
         params = AzureBlobStore._split_url(
             "abs://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/sascontainer/A/B/sasblob.txt?sastoken"
@@ -97,3 +110,12 @@ def test_blob_service_client(self):
         self.assertEqual(blob.account_name, "myaccount")
         # Credentials gets funky with v12.0.0, so I comment this out
         # self.assertEqual(blob.credential, "sastoken")
+
+    def test_blob_service_client_environment_credentials(self):
+        abs = AzureBlobStore()
+        blob = abs._blob_service_client(account_name="myaccount", sas_token="")
+        self.assertEqual(blob.account_name, "myaccount")
+        self.assertIsInstance(blob.credential, EnvironmentCredential)
+        self.assertEqual(blob.credential._credential._tenant_id, "mytenantid")
+        self.assertEqual(blob.credential._credential._client_id, "myclientid")
+        self.assertEqual(blob.credential._credential._client_credential, "myclientsecret")
diff --git a/requirements/azure.txt b/requirements/azure.txt
index c2242ad1..82f60816 100644
--- a/requirements/azure.txt
+++ b/requirements/azure.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 azure-datalake-store >= 0.0.30
 azure-storage-blob >= 12.1.0
 requests >= 2.21.0
+azure-identity>=1.3.1
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