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Service Accounts
A service account is a special kind of account typically used by an application or compute workload, such as a Compute Engine instance, rather than a person. A service account is identified by its email address, which is unique to the account.
Applications use service accounts to make by authenticating as either the service account itself, or as Google Workspace or Cloud Identity users through . When an application authenticates as a service account, it has access to all resources that the service account has permission to access.
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