Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services provided by Google. It offers a wide range of infrastructure, platform, and software services designed to help businesses build, deploy, and scale applications, websites, and services. Key components and features of Google Cloud Platform include:
Compute: Provides various compute services to run applications
Google Compute Engine: Offers virtual machines (VMs) that run on Google’s infrastructure.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Managed Kubernetes service for containerized applications.
App Engine: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for building scalable web and mobile applications.
Cloud Functions: Event-driven, serverless compute service for building and connecting cloud services.
Storage and Databases: Offers scalable storage and database solutions
Cloud Storage: Object storage service for unstructured data.
Cloud SQL: Managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
Cloud Spanner: Globally distributed, strongly consistent database service.
Bigtable: Fully managed NoSQL database for large analytical and operational workloads.
Firestore: NoSQL document database built for global apps.
Networking: Provides networking services to connect and manage infrastructure
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Configurable networking layer for GCP resources.
Cloud Load Balancing: Distributes traffic across multiple instances.
Cloud CDN: Content delivery network to serve content to users with low latency.
Cloud Interconnect: Extends on-premises networks to Google’s network.
Big Data and Machine Learning: Tools and services for data analysis and machine learning
BigQuery: Fully managed, serverless data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.
Cloud Dataflow: Stream and batch data processing service.
Cloud Dataproc: Managed Spark and Hadoop service.
AI Platform: Suite of tools for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.
TensorFlow: Open-source machine learning framework.
Identity and Security: Services for securing applications and managing identities
Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM): Manages permissions and access to resources.
Cloud Key Management Service (KMS): Manages encryption keys for cloud services.
Cloud Security Command Center: Centralized security and risk management platform.
Cloud Armor: DDoS protection and web application firewall service.
Developer Tools: Tools to support application development and deployment
Cloud Build: Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) service.
Cloud Source Repositories: Private Git repositories hosted on GCP.
Cloud Scheduler: Fully managed cron job service.
Management Tools: Tools for managing and monitoring cloud resources
Cloud Monitoring: Provides visibility into the performance and health of applications.
Cloud Logging: Collects and stores logs from applications and GCP services.
Cloud Deployment Manager: Infrastructure as code service for automating resource management.
Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver): Integrated monitoring, logging, and diagnostics service.