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title: Google Cloud Platform
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## Google Cloud Platform

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.

Some famous web services include

* Google Compute Engine – IaaS providing virtual machines.
* Google App Engine – PaaS for application hosting.
* Bigtable – IaaS massively scalable NoSQL database.
* BigQuery – SaaS large scale database analytics.
* Google Cloud Functions – As of August 2017 is in beta testing. FaaS providing serverless functions to be triggered by cloud events.
* Google Cloud Datastore - DBaaS providing a document-oriented database.
* 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.
* Google Storage - IaaS providing RESTful online file and object storage.
* Google Cloud Dataproc - Managed Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop service.

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* <a href='https://cloud.google.com/docs/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Google Cloud Platform Documentation</a>
* <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Wikipedia</a>
* <a href= 'https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Google Site Reliability Engineering</a>