diff --git a/docs/pages/application-access/cloud-apis/google-cloud.mdx b/docs/pages/application-access/cloud-apis/google-cloud.mdx
index 384161589f96c..aad516f383767 100644
--- a/docs/pages/application-access/cloud-apis/google-cloud.mdx
+++ b/docs/pages/application-access/cloud-apis/google-cloud.mdx
@@ -94,15 +94,6 @@ $ gcloud iam service-accounts create teleport-google-cloud-cli \
   --display-name="teleport-google-cloud-cli"
 ```
 
-Enable your service account to act as other service accounts by assigning it the
-predefined "Service Account User" role:
-
-```code
-$ gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding <Var name="google-cloud-project" /> \
-   --member="serviceAccount:teleport-google-cloud-cli@<Var name="google-cloud-project" />.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
-   --role="roles/iam.serviceAccountUser"
-```
-
 ### Set up a service account that Teleport users can access
 
 When a Teleport user executes a Google Cloud CLI command against the Teleport