Glossary · Phase 11 · Professional practice
Service account
An identity a program uses to call cloud services, with its own narrow permissions, instead of a person's login.
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Other terms from the same lesson
- egress: Data leaving a cloud provider's network, usually to the internet, which providers charge for by the gigabyte.
- IAM: A cloud's system of identities and policies that decides who may do what to which resource.
- least privilege: Giving each person or service only the actions, on only the resources, its job needs, so a mistake or a leak can do little harm.
- presigned URL: A link signed with your credentials that grants access to one stored object and expires after a short time.
- workload identity: Short-lived credentials a cloud gives a running service automatically, so there's no long-lived key to store or leak.
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