Building a Secure GCP Foundation From an AWS Engineer's Perspective

Building a Secure GCP Foundation: An AWS Engineer's First Lab I have two AWS certifications and essentially zero GCP experience. So I set a constraint for myself: build a security-first GCP environment from scratch, using only the console (ClickOps), in a single sitting. No tutorials. Just apply what I know about cloud security principles and see how GCP implements them. Here's exactly what I built, how it maps to AWS, and the security decisions I made at every step. Starting Point: Project Isolation In AWS, the highest-level security boundary is the AWS Account . In GCP, that equivalent is a Project . Before touching anything else, I created a new project called secure-app-foundation . "I like starting with project isolation because the project boundary is a fundamental security and billing boundary in GCP. Every resource lives inside a project, and IAM policies, API enablement, and billing are all scoped to it." This is the same reason you wouldn't deploy a production workload into y