diff --git a/ui/build/config.go b/ui/build/config.go
index 59b01b3..8874209 100644
--- a/ui/build/config.go
+++ b/ui/build/config.go
@@ -1242,10 +1242,40 @@
 	return "", fmt.Errorf("cannot generate a proxy socket address shorter than the limit of %v", maxNameLen)
 }
 
+// IsGooglerEnvironment returns true if the current build is running
+// on a Google developer machine and false otherwise.
+func (c *configImpl) IsGooglerEnvironment() bool {
+	cf := "ANDROID_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG"
+	if v, ok := c.environ.Get(cf); ok {
+		return v == "googler"
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// GoogleProdCredsExist determine whether credentials exist on the
+// Googler machine to use remote execution.
+func (c *configImpl) GoogleProdCredsExist() bool {
+	if _, err := exec.Command("/usr/bin/prodcertstatus", "--simple_output", "--nocheck_loas").Output(); err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// UseRemoteBuild indicates whether to use a remote build acceleration system
+// to speed up the build.
 func (c *configImpl) UseRemoteBuild() bool {
 	return c.UseGoma() || c.UseRBE()
 }
 
+// StubbyExists checks whether the stubby binary exists on the machine running
+// the build.
+func (c *configImpl) StubbyExists() bool {
+	if _, err := exec.LookPath("stubby"); err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
 // RemoteParallel controls how many remote jobs (i.e., commands which contain
 // gomacc) are run in parallel.  Note the parallelism of all other jobs is
 // still limited by Parallel()
diff --git a/ui/build/rbe.go b/ui/build/rbe.go
index 3e558f7..82fc15f 100644
--- a/ui/build/rbe.go
+++ b/ui/build/rbe.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"runtime"
+	"strings"
 
 	"android/soong/ui/metrics"
 )
@@ -126,6 +127,34 @@
 	}
 }
 
+func prodCredsAuthType(config Config) bool {
+	authVar, val := config.rbeAuth()
+	if strings.Contains(authVar, "use_google_prod_creds") && val != "" && val != "false" {
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// Check whether proper auth exists for RBE builds run within a
+// Google dev environment.
+func CheckProdCreds(ctx Context, config Config) {
+	if !config.IsGooglerEnvironment() {
+		return
+	}
+	if !config.StubbyExists() && prodCredsAuthType(config) {
+		fmt.Fprintln(ctx.Writer, "")
+		fmt.Fprintln(ctx.Writer, fmt.Sprintf("\033[33mWARNING: %q binary not found in $PATH, follow go/build-fast#opting-out-of-loas-credentials instead for authenticating with RBE.\033[0m", "stubby"))
+		fmt.Fprintln(ctx.Writer, "")
+		return
+	}
+	if config.GoogleProdCredsExist() {
+		return
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintln(ctx.Writer, "")
+	fmt.Fprintln(ctx.Writer, "\033[33mWARNING: Missing LOAS credentials, please run `gcert`. This will result in failing builds in the future, see go/rbe-android-default-announcement.\033[0m")
+	fmt.Fprintln(ctx.Writer, "")
+}
+
 // DumpRBEMetrics creates a metrics protobuf file containing RBE related metrics.
 // The protobuf file is created if RBE is enabled and the proxy service has
 // started. The proxy service is shutdown in order to dump the RBE metrics to the