I am logged in to a GCE instance via SSH. From there I would like to access the Storage with the help of a Service Account: GCE> gcloud auth list Credentialed accounts: - 1234567890-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com (active) I first made sure that this Service account is flagged "Can edit" in the permissions of the project I am working in. I also made sure to give him the Write ACL on the buck