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.