AWS lets us use access keys to authenticate programmatically. That’s useful for local development, or if we want to let tools access AWS on our behalf. The closest thing to access keys on Google Cloud seem to be service account keys. But are they really that similar? AWS access keys and service account keys have a number of things in common: We can create them to let applications or tools authenticate in an unattended way, and we can revoke them once we don’t need them anymore. For both k...
