[lyind]

If you are an organisation you'll have a Google Workspace account and can administer your groups and users as one would expect from any IAM solution.

Admin's having to reset passwords with Google is still rare, because Google asks users to keep their own recovery methods.

Honestly, I can understand the frustration from messing up one's private account access.

But don't blame Google, please.

[stephenbez]

Why should we not blame Google? It seems like their problem and it is entirely within their control to fix it.

[xp84]

Yes, it seems like the groups thing isn’t so baffling if you realize that Google groups is also the way groups are created and managed in the g suite (google workspace) system. So it seems less looney that you would use those groups, which likely already exist and are managed by HR, for things like Sysadmins or “EU NOC Support Staff” or “IT Managers” for GCP permissions as well. I agree that outside of the Google workspace ecosystem this becomes a weird quirk but honestly, I would be kind of surprised if that many sizable customers of GCP aren’t already on the G suite too since G suite has much greater share in its market than GCP does.