diff --git a/cli/internal/gcp/client/client.go b/cli/internal/gcp/client/client.go
index f98297725..17bb36313 100644
--- a/cli/internal/gcp/client/client.go
+++ b/cli/internal/gcp/client/client.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math/big"
-	"strings"
 
 	compute "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1"
 	admin "cloud.google.com/go/iam/admin/apiv1"
@@ -15,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/internal/cloud/cloudprovider"
 	"github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/internal/cloud/cloudtypes"
 	"github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/internal/state"
+	"go.uber.org/multierr"
 	"golang.org/x/oauth2/google"
 )
 
@@ -461,25 +461,9 @@ func closeAll(closers []closer) error {
 	// close operations, even if a previous operation failed. The if multiple
 	// errors occur, the returned error will be composed of the error messages
 	// of those errors.
-	var errs []error
+	var err error
 	for _, closer := range closers {
-		errs = append(errs, closer.Close())
+		err = multierr.Append(err, closer.Close())
 	}
-	return composeErr(errs)
-}
-
-// composeErr composes a list of errors to a single error.
-//
-// If all errs are nil, the returned error is also nil.
-func composeErr(errs []error) error {
-	var composed strings.Builder
-	for i, err := range errs {
-		if err != nil {
-			composed.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%d: %s", i, err.Error()))
-		}
-	}
-	if composed.Len() != 0 {
-		return errors.New(composed.String())
-	}
-	return nil
+	return err
 }
diff --git a/cli/internal/gcp/client/client_test.go b/cli/internal/gcp/client/client_test.go
index 464bf0a4e..a10feb45f 100644
--- a/cli/internal/gcp/client/client_test.go
+++ b/cli/internal/gcp/client/client_test.go
@@ -848,23 +848,3 @@ func (c *someCloser) Close() error {
 	c.closed = true
 	return c.closeErr
 }
-
-func TestComposedErr(t *testing.T) {
-	assert := assert.New(t)
-
-	noErrs := []error{nil, nil, nil}
-	assert.NoError(composeErr(noErrs))
-
-	someErrs := []error{
-		errors.New("failed 4"),
-		errors.New("failed 7"),
-		nil,
-		nil,
-		errors.New("failed 9"),
-	}
-	err := composeErr(someErrs)
-	assert.Error(err)
-	assert.Contains(err.Error(), "4")
-	assert.Contains(err.Error(), "7")
-	assert.Contains(err.Error(), "9")
-}