diff --git a/InnerEye/Azure/azure_util.py b/InnerEye/Azure/azure_util.py
index c361af861..856c9f747 100644
--- a/InnerEye/Azure/azure_util.py
+++ b/InnerEye/Azure/azure_util.py
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ def strip_prefix(string: str, prefix: str) -> str:
     :return: Input string with prefix removed.
     """
     if string.startswith(prefix):
-        return string[len(prefix) :]
+        return string[len(prefix):]
     return string
 
 
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ def download_run_outputs_by_prefix(
     # (120sec timeout for all files).
     for file in run.get_file_names():
         if file.startswith(prefix_str):
-            target_path = file[len(prefix_str) :] 
+            target_path = file[len(prefix_str):]
             if target_path.startswith("/"):
                 target_path = target_path[1:]
                 logging.info(f"Downloading {file}")
@@ -403,11 +403,3 @@ def step_up_directories(path: Path) -> Generator[Path, None, None]:
         if parent == path:
             break
         path = parent
-
-
-def get_default_azure_config_json_path() -> Path:
-    """
-    Gets the path to the project's default Azure config JSON file.
-    """
-    azure_config_json_path = fixed_paths.repository_root_directory() / "config.json"
-    return azure_config_json_path
diff --git a/InnerEye/ML/configs/histo_configs/classification/DeepSMILEPanda.py b/InnerEye/ML/configs/histo_configs/classification/DeepSMILEPanda.py
index 1ebeaeaa5..17f61921f 100644
--- a/InnerEye/ML/configs/histo_configs/classification/DeepSMILEPanda.py
+++ b/InnerEye/ML/configs/histo_configs/classification/DeepSMILEPanda.py
@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@
 import os
 from monai.transforms import Compose
 from pytorch_lightning.callbacks.model_checkpoint import ModelCheckpoint
+
+from health_azure.utils import CheckpointDownloader
+from health_azure.utils import get_workspace
+from health_ml.networks.layers.attention_layers import GatedAttentionLayer
 from InnerEye.Common import fixed_paths
 from InnerEye.ML.Histopathology.datamodules.panda_module import PandaTilesDataModule
-from InnerEye.Azure.azure_util import get_default_azure_config_json_path
 from InnerEye.ML.Histopathology.datasets.panda_tiles_dataset import PandaTilesDataset
-from health_ml.networks.layers.attention_layers import GatedAttentionLayer
+
 from InnerEye.ML.Histopathology.models.transforms import (
     EncodeTilesBatchd,
     LoadTilesBatchd,
@@ -25,7 +28,6 @@
 )
 from InnerEye.ML.configs.histo_configs.classification.BaseMIL import BaseMIL
 from InnerEye.ML.configs.histo_configs.run_ids import innereye_ssl_checkpoint
-from health_azure.utils import CheckpointDownloader
 
 
 class DeepSMILEPanda(BaseMIL):
@@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ def cache_dir(self) -> Path:
     def setup(self) -> None:
         if self.encoder_type == InnerEyeSSLEncoder.__name__:
             self.downloader = CheckpointDownloader(
-                azure_config_json_path=get_default_azure_config_json_path(),
+                azure_config_json_path=get_workspace(),
                 run_recovery_id=innereye_ssl_checkpoint,
                 checkpoint_filename="last.ckpt",
                 download_dir="outputs/",