Which practice is recommended for Google Cloud service accounts?

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GCP guidance recommends avoiding long-lived user-managed keys. Use workload identity and scoped roles, create single-purpose service accounts, and disable unused accounts to reduce lateral movement risk.

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gcloud iam service-accounts disable svc@proj.iam.gserviceaccount.com  // retire unused accounts

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