Google Cloud has been around for years, but if you’re not familiar with it yet, here’s a crash course. Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google. It includes infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) products and tools, along with other services such as data analytics tools and machine learning APIs for developers.

What is Google Cloud?

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that Google offers to businesses, developers, and governments. These services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Google Cloud also has an extensive portfolio of tools to help with DevOps and automation.

Overview of Google Cloud offerings

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that Google offers to help businesses scale and grow their online presence. GCP is a collection of cloud computing services that Google offers to help businesses scale and grow their online presence.

The offerings fall under three categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

1. Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine (GCE) is Google’s Infrastructure as a Service offering. GCE allows users to create and manage virtual machines on demand. It provides a simple way for you to run workloads in the cloud using Google’s infrastructure, allowing you to focus on your core competencies while allowing Google Cloud to manage the rest of your infrastructure needs.

2. Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows you to build, host, and scale web applications on Google’s infrastructure. It’s fast, reliable and easy to use.

It’s like having your own custom-built IT system: You get all the benefits of running your own data center without any of the hassle—and it only takes seconds to sign up!

Google App Engine also comes with automatic scaling; so if there are more visitors than usual, you don’t have to worry about crashing or slowing down. And because Google optimizes your app’s resources automatically based on usage patterns, there’s no need for complicated manual tuning or management tools.

3. Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage is a storage service that lets you store and access your data on Google’s infrastructure. You can use this service to efficiently store objects and files, including images, videos, raw data or other media as well as application-related information like users’ preferences or game state.

Cloud Storage is a RESTful web service that provides developers with the ability to store and retrieve user-created content. The REST architecture enables you to build applications more easily by using existing internet protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS to create simple interfaces for manipulating data over the Web.

4. Google Kubernetes Engine 

Google Kubernetes Engine is a managed service that allows you to run containerized workloads on Google Cloud Platform. You can use it to deploy, operate, and scale container clusters.

Google Kubernetes Engine provides a set of built-in tools for managing your containers and cluster resources using an API or command line interface (CLI). These tools include:

• A scheduler for scheduling workloads across the cluster’s nodes.
• Horizontal pod autoscaling, which automatically adds or removes containers as needed in response to traffic or capacity requirements.
• A load balancer that distributes traffic across pods internally within the cluster or externally between clusters via IP address load balancing (ILB) or DNS load balancing (DLB).

5. Google Cloud’s operations suite

As you look to manage your applications and services in the cloud, Google Cloud’s Operations Suite is a set of tools that can help you monitor and log, secure, and bill for your cloud resources. The Operations Suite includes:

• Cloud Security Command Center (G Suite only) – A dashboard for security management that enables users to perform tasks such as monitoring traffic levels or tracking potential threats across G Suite applications and services.
• Cloud Audit Logging (G Suite only) – A tool that records activity on computers hosting non-Google apps such as Dropbox or Slack within your G Suite organization. It provides granular details about user activity like what files were accessed and when they were accessed. With this information, administrators are able to track down any suspicious behavior in their systems before it poses a threat to the entire business process of an organization by providing accurate logs when requested by auditors or law enforcement agents during investigations into cyberattacks against businesses whose data was compromised during an attack.*

There are several other tools available through Google Cloud Platform which aren’t part of its operations suite as well; these include:

6. Serverless computing,

Serverless computing is a way of running applications where you don’t have to worry about setting up and maintaining servers. When you use serverless computing, your application is automatically deployed in response to events such as users clicking a button or receiving an email. Instead of paying for the resources an application needs at the time it’s running, you pay only for what your program actually uses.

Serverless computing can be beneficial if you’re building web apps that need to run fast, or are constantly updating their functionality—or both! Let’s say you’re writing an app that shows movie times on websites like IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes: when someone clicks a link in one of those sites’ pages, they’ll be redirected through Google Cloud Functions (a service that allows developers to write serverless code) which will retrieve the data needed before sending it back with everything else needed on page load time too fast for anyone mortals notice — pretty cool huh?

7. Databases

• Databases

Google Cloud SQL is Google’s database service that runs MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB databases. It offers automatic backups, point-in-time recovery, multi-tenancy, encryption at rest and other features for enterprise customers looking to run databases on Google Cloud Platform. It also comes with query optimization and tuning services from Google Cloud Dataflow.

Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed relational database that provides ACID transactions while scaling to billions of rows across thousands of servers in multiple regions around the globe with subsecond latency at any scale—all managed in a single namespace by Google. Its horizontal scaling makes it ideal for applications with large amounts of data where traditional RDBMSs require manual sharding or federation that can impact performance as well as add complexity to your deployment architecture.

Cloud Bigtable is an open source NoSQL database built on top of Apache HBase with support for columnar storage format used by many researchers because it lets them work at larger scale than most other relational databases do today; this results in faster queries (less time spent waiting) because there aren’t any joins between tables needed when querying against multiple columns instead just one column per record—->END OF SECTION

Higher-level services

Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services by Google. The platform offers a variety of products and services including compute, storage, data analytics and machine learning. Google Cloud Platform is based on the same infrastructure that powers Google’s own products, so you can be sure your data is safe with us.

Google Cloud certification paths

It’s important to recognize the value of a Google Cloud certification, because it demonstrates your ability to apply skills in the workplace and can help you land a job or promotion. There are several ways you can achieve an official Google Cloud certification:

• Google Cloud certification paths. This type of certification allows individuals who already have experience with different parts of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to prove their skills and knowledge by taking an exam. The exam covers everything in that path’s “training courses,” which include official courses, courseware prepared by industry leaders, and materials found online.
• Google Cloud training courses. These are hands-on classes that teach users how to set up GCP products like BigQuery or App Engine for their organization’s use cases; these classes don’t require any prior experience on your part—just an interest in learning about how you can use GCP technologies at work!
• Google Cloud certification exams

Google Cloud pricing options

Google Cloud pricing is based on a pay-as-you-go model. The amount you spend depends on the type of service you use, and the number of resources you use. Pricing varies depending on the region where you are using Google Cloud.

You can get started with Google Cloud Platform by signing up for a free trial here: https://cloud.google.com/free/.

Google Cloud competitors

Google Cloud is a common competitor of other cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud. As shown below, Google offers some unique value propositions as compared to these other public clouds:

1. AWS

The first cloud platform is AWS. This is a popular cloud computing and data storage service that offers a variety of on-demand cloud computing platforms, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).

Using this service allows you to build, run and operate applications with little or no upfront investment. Here are some of its features:

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): EC2 provides resizable virtual server instances that you can use to launch any type of application in the cloud. You only pay for what you use with no upfront investment required.
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS): EBS is Amazon’s scalable storage solution that allows you to attach additional storage capacity when needed without having to purchase physical drives or configure RAID arrays yourself. It provides both persistent block level storage volumes for data durability as well as ephemeral block level storage volumes designed for temporary data processing needs like database log files or intermediate results from MapReduce jobs executed on EC2 instances

2. Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides both PaaS and IaaS cloud computing services.

Microsoft Azure was first announced on October 27, 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles and released on February 1, 2010 as Windows Azure; before being renamed to Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014. The current release is named Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.

conclusion

The cloud is a dynamic environment, and Google Cloud Platform provides the tools to keep your business ahead of the competition. From data analytics to email marketing, Google Cloud provides everything you need in one place. Google Cloud Platform is an important part of the Google ecosystem. Google Cloud offers a number of services that allow developers to build and run applications without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. It also provides higher-level tools for managing data, security and operations. It’s one of the more popular cloud computing platforms available today with many customers using it for their own needs.

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