Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning. Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.
Google Cloud Platform provides Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Serverless Computing environments.
In April 2008, Google announced App Engine, a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers, which was the first cloud computing service from the company. The service became generally available in November 2011. Since the announcement of App Engine, Google added multiple cloud services to the platform.
Google Cloud Platform is a part of Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as G Suite, enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and Google Maps.
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Products
Popular products
A sample of products are listed below; this is not an exhaustive list.
- App Engine - PaaS for application hosting.
- BigQuery - IaaS large scale database analytics.
- Bigtable - IaaS massively scalable NoSQL database.
- Cloud AutoML - suite of Machine Learning products that allow developers with limited machine learning expertise to leverage Google's transfer learning and Neural Architecture Search technology. Image labeling service available.
- Cloud Datastore - DBaaS providing a document-oriented database.
- Cloud Functions - FaaS providing serverless functions to be triggered by cloud events.
- Cloud Machine Learning Engine - Managed machine learning as a service for training and executing TensorFlow models.
- Cloud Pub/Sub - a service for publishing and subscribing to data streams and messages. Applications can communicate via Pub/Sub, without direct integration between the applications themselves.
- Compute Engine - IaaS providing virtual machines.
- Kubernetes Engine - A managed container orchestration service for Kubernetes.
- Storage - IaaS providing RESTful online file and object storage.
Similarity to services by other cloud service providers
For those familiar with other notable cloud service providers, a comparison of similar services may be helpful in understanding Google Cloud Platform's offerings.
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Certifications
Similar to offerings by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM, a series of Google Cloud Certified programs are available on the Google Cloud Platform. Participants can choose between online learning programs provided by Coursera or Qwiklabs as well as live workshops and webinars. Depending on the program, certifications can be earned online or at various testing centers located globally.
- Associate Cloud Engineer (Beta)
- Professional Data Engineer
- Professional Cloud Architect
- G Suite Administrator
- G Suite
Timeline
- April 2008 - Google App Engine was released as a preview.
- May 2010 - Google Cloud Storage launched.
- July 2012 - Google creates the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program.
- October 2012 - Shortly after the Amazon outage, Google App Engine experienced a major outage that also affected Tumblr and Dropbox.
- April 2013 - BigQuery, first presented in March, went into General Availability (GA).
- December 2013 - After an 18-month preview Google Compute Engine was released into GA.
- February 2014 - Google Cloud SQL was released into GA.
- March 2014 - During the Google Cloud Platform Live, Google announced their biggest price drop affecting all products between a 30% and 85%.
- March 2014 - Google announced Managed Virtual Machines, a new feature to overcome the traditional limitations in Google App Engine.
- February 11, 2016 - Google Cloud Functions announced for preview.
- February 22, 2016 - Google Cloud Dataproc entered general availability.
- October 18, 2016 - Nomulus top-level domain registry announced.
- November 15, 2016 - Google Cloud Jobs API enters is released.
- March 8, 2017 - Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine enters general availability.
- January 16, 2018 - Google announced it would add five new Cloud Platform regions, in The Netherlands, Montreal, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Finland.
See also
- Amazon Web Services
- G Suite
- Heroku
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Jelastic
- Microsoft Azure
- OpenStack
- Oracle Cloud Platform
- Platform as a Service
References
External links
- "Big Data & Machine Learning Blog". cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/.
- "Google Cloud Platform". cloud.google.com/.
- "Google Cloud Platform Blog". cloudplatform.googleblog.com/.
- "Google Cloud Platform Newsletter". cloud.google.com/newsletter/.
- "Google Cloud Certification" cloud.google.com/certification/.
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