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Glossary term

Service account

An identity for software rather than a person, used by an application or integration to call cloud APIs. In GCP, ZopNight's recommended one-click connection creates a dedicated service account in the customer's project and grants it the roles for the chosen permission level. Why it matters: Its roles define what an automated tool can touch, so it should hold only what the tool needs.

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T1 / M1.1 / L3 GCP & Azure: service accounts and SPNs T1 / M1.8 / L3 Deploy a service on ZopCloud T4 / M4.9 / L2 The translation staircase

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