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Google Cloud Platform

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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