In GCP IAM, what is a Service Account used for?

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In GCP IAM, what is a Service Account used for?

Key points

  • Service accounts are not human user accounts
  • They enable programmatic access to GCP APIs
  • Human users are represented differently in IAM
  • Service accounts have unique authentication mechanisms

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