Google Could Platform is meant to script...

Impressive!

No, really impressive!

I have being using AWS for 2 years, and still google managed to impress me.

gcutil is really nice, no need to worry with ssh keys, auth details...  gutil just give you a url, just copy it, paste on browser, allow access and enter the authorization key back to command line.  Very similar to Google Authentication 2nd step.

$ gcloud auth login
Go to the following link in your browser:

    https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?XXXX


Enter verification code: ***

You are now logged in as [m***@gmail.com].
Your current project is [None].  You can change this setting by running:
  $ gcloud config set project <project>

Easy right?

After that, I wanna install cassandra....  and the script to do so is straight forward (available at: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-cassandra-python)

Also, $500 bucks starter kick is really nice!