diff --git a/pkgs/tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk/default.nix
index 7c81e861ddbc..feb0b996b61c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk/default.nix
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@
 #   3) used by `google-cloud-sdk` only on GCE guests
 #
 
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, makeWrapper, python, cffi, cryptography, pyopenssl,
-  crcmod, google-compute-engine, with-gce ? false }:
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, makeWrapper, python, with-gce ? false }:
 
 let
-  pythonInputs = [ cffi cryptography pyopenssl crcmod ]
-                 ++ lib.optional (with-gce) google-compute-engine;
-  pythonPath = lib.makeSearchPath python.sitePackages pythonInputs;
+  pythonEnv = python.withPackages (p: with p; [
+    cffi
+    cryptography
+    pyopenssl
+    crcmod
+  ] ++ lib.optional (with-gce) google-compute-engine);
 
   baseUrl = "https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads";
   sources = name: system: {
@@ -53,8 +55,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
         programPath="$out/google-cloud-sdk/bin/$program"
         binaryPath="$out/bin/$program"
         wrapProgram "$programPath" \
-            --set CLOUDSDK_PYTHON "${python}/bin/python" \
-            --prefix PYTHONPATH : "${pythonPath}"
+            --set CLOUDSDK_PYTHON "${pythonEnv}/bin/python" \
+            --prefix PYTHONPATH : "${pythonEnv}/${python.sitePackages}"
 
         mkdir -p $out/bin
         ln -s $programPath $binaryPath
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 63921241cded..7bc8fbff4d46 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3488,8 +3488,8 @@ in
 
   google-authenticator = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/google-authenticator { };
 
-  google-cloud-sdk = python2.pkgs.google-cloud-sdk;
-  google-cloud-sdk-gce = python2.pkgs.google-cloud-sdk-gce;
+  google-cloud-sdk = callPackage ../tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk { };
+  google-cloud-sdk-gce = google-cloud-sdk.override { with-gce = true; };
 
   google-fonts = callPackage ../data/fonts/google-fonts { };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8f9f0d6627c0..0e5259a8a241 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2384,9 +2384,6 @@ in {
 
   python-gitlab = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-gitlab { };
 
-  google-cloud-sdk = callPackage ../tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk { };
-  google-cloud-sdk-gce = callPackage ../tools/admin/google-cloud-sdk { with-gce=true; };
-
   google-compute-engine = callPackage ../tools/virtualization/google-compute-engine { };
 
   google-music = callPackage ../development/python-modules/google-music { };