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A Service Account is an identity type in Google Cloud used for machine-to-machine authentication; it has no password and proves its identity through a pair of keys (a unique email address and a private key); when calling the Vertex AI API, a personal account usually cannot be used for interactive authorization, so a service account is the standard solution.
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