ResumableUploadAbortException: 403 Insufficient Permission

Change the Cloud API access scope of the VM to allow read/write on Storage. This is in the "Access scopes" section of the VM settings. Your VM needs to be stopped to do this.

0. Stop VM instance
1. Open VM instance details
2. Press "Edit"
3. Change Cloud API access scope--> "Allow full access to all cloud APIs"

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/create-enable-service-accounts-for-instances#changeserviceaccountandscopes

IMPORTANT!! Note per this comment on a related post that you may need to delete the credentials in ~/.gsutil after definint the new scope.

# VM instance console
sudo rm -r ~/.gsutil

On the GCE instance run the following to set up: There is no need restart Compute Engine,

gcloud init

Output will be something like this.

Choose the account you would like to use to perform operations for  this configuration:
 [1] [email protected]
 [2] Log in with a new account
Please enter your numeric choice: 1

Choose number 1 to use a service account. If this is a shared machine and you log in with your personal account, your credentials could be used by anyone else on the machine. For more detail Read here

If you have already initialize gcloud you do not want reinitialize.

gcloud auth login