The GCE API can be idempotent if you'd like. Fill out the requestId field with the same UUID in multiple instances.insert calls (or other mutation calls) and you will receive the same operation Id back in response.
This is an interesting claim, because "being lost by your family at age 2 and essentially kidnapped and shipped to another country" ranks pretty high on my life impacting events list.
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