diff --git a/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_no_tags.go b/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_no_tags.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 270cf77ce59ce..0000000000000
--- a/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_no_tags.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// Unless explicitly stated otherwise all files in this repository are licensed
-// under the Apache License Version 2.0.
-// This product includes software developed at Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/).
-// Copyright 2016-present Datadog, Inc.
-
-//go:build !gce
-
-package gce
-
-import "context"
-
-// GetTags gets the tags from the GCE api
-func GetTags(_ context.Context) ([]string, error) {
-	tags := []string{}
-
-	return tags, nil
-}
diff --git a/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags.go b/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags.go
index 31c986277bc97..9440ba6ccc21b 100644
--- a/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags.go
+++ b/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags.go
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 // This product includes software developed at Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/).
 // Copyright 2016-present Datadog, Inc.
 
-//go:build gce
-
 package gce
 
 import (
diff --git a/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags_test.go b/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags_test.go
index 06f15ed938f21..80a803e3cc687 100644
--- a/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/cloudproviders/gce/gce_tags_test.go
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 // This product includes software developed at Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/).
 // Copyright 2016-present Datadog, Inc.
 
-//go:build gce
-
 package gce
 
 import (
diff --git a/tasks/build_tags.py b/tasks/build_tags.py
index ddd993490f389..a3c13f088eb8b 100644
--- a/tasks/build_tags.py
+++ b/tasks/build_tags.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
     "ec2",
     "etcd",
     "fargateprocess",
-    "gce",
     "jmx",
     "jetson",
     "kubeapiserver",
@@ -68,7 +67,6 @@
     "docker",
     "ec2",
     "etcd",
-    "gce",
     "jetson",
     "jmx",
     "kubeapiserver",
@@ -109,7 +107,7 @@
 FIPS_AGENT_TAGS = AGENT_TAGS.union({"goexperiment.systemcrypto"})
 
 # CLUSTER_AGENT_TAGS lists the tags needed when building the cluster-agent
-CLUSTER_AGENT_TAGS = {"clusterchecks", "datadog.no_waf", "kubeapiserver", "orchestrator", "zlib", "zstd", "ec2", "gce"}
+CLUSTER_AGENT_TAGS = {"clusterchecks", "datadog.no_waf", "kubeapiserver", "orchestrator", "zlib", "zstd", "ec2"}
 
 # CLUSTER_AGENT_CLOUDFOUNDRY_TAGS lists the tags needed when building the cloudfoundry cluster-agent
 CLUSTER_AGENT_CLOUDFOUNDRY_TAGS = {"clusterchecks"}
@@ -121,7 +119,7 @@
 IOT_AGENT_TAGS = {"jetson", "otlp", "systemd", "zlib", "zstd"}
 
 # INSTALLER_TAGS lists the tags needed when building the installer
-INSTALLER_TAGS = {"docker", "ec2", "gce", "kubelet"}
+INSTALLER_TAGS = {"docker", "ec2", "kubelet"}
 
 # PROCESS_AGENT_TAGS lists the tags necessary to build the process-agent
 PROCESS_AGENT_TAGS = AGENT_TAGS.union({"fargateprocess"}).difference({"otlp", "python", "trivy"})