[nijave]

In general, it seems like GCP has higher level abstractions but documentation isn't as good as AWS. AWS gives you fairly "primitive" infrastructure APIs whereas GCP gives you more high-level, abstracted APIs that do more under the hood.

Personally, I've found AWS SDKs to be easier to work with (especially auth), although I've used them more so there's probably some bias.

GCP relies heavily on Oauth but it can be a bit clunky for human access (basically requiring browser auth)