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Understand service accounts

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Understand service accounts

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- [Narrator] Service accounts are a special type of account that's intended for non-human users. For example, say an application or virtual machine runs a daily job and needs authentication and authorization to your cloud environment data. Instead of having a team member manually run this task every afternoon, you would assign that application or virtual machine a service account identity. And going forward, this application can make authorized API calls to access the resources it needs. There are two different types of service accounts you can choose from. There's default or the Google-managed service accounts or user-managed service accounts. Default service accounts help you get started with Google Cloud services and are usually created by the platform when you first utilize a resource. Both the service account and associated key pairs are maintained and rotated by Google Cloud. Once created, the default service account is now enabled and able to access other Google Cloud resources…

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