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Security conscious users would be best served by staying with AWS EC2 right now. GCP lacks all of the IAM functionality in AWS.

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https://cloud.google.com/iam

This is very recent though, and not considered Generally Available yet across the platform (meaning fully hardened, supported, and backed by an SLA).

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Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.

Interesting. It seems that Google IAM is very similar to AWS IAM yet very different in one aspect. In AWS, you can define exactly what subset of APIs/resources are accessible to a role, which is very flexible, but also can be very confusing. It seems Google has taken the approach of pre-defining sensible roles.

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