gsutil copy returning “AccessDeniedException: 403 Insufficient Permission” from GCE

Question

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
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Answer 1

I have written an answer to this question since I can not post comments:

This error can also occur if you're running the gsutil command with a sudo prefix in some cases.