Google Cloud Platform And It’s Products For Beginners.(Overview)

If you have NEVER heard of Cloud and it’s your first time venturing the cloud this article is going to give an overview of Google Cloud platform and the products they provide.

“With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services.” ~ Roy Stephan, Founder and CEO of PierceMatrix

Let me start off by mentioning some of the top social media platforms that are using GCP:

• Snapchat:What you probably don’t know is that this multimedia messaging app has more than 190 million daily users, that’s right DAILY. So Snapchat relies on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for running all their operations in the cloud.
• Twitter: With people tweeting more and more every day, the data produced is enormously large. So Twitter uses Google Cloud for storing and computing purpose.
• Spotify: If you haven’t heard of Spotify I don’t know which rock you have been living. More than 75+ million subscribers and over 2 million playlists in over 60 countries, Spotify uses GCP’s flexible and scalable storage. This resulted in Spotify moving from on-premise to GCP in order to gain benefit from Google cloud’s database services such as Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore, Cloud Bigtable.
• Twentieth Century Fox: Data Scientists at 20th Century Fox and Google Cloud have developed machine learning software that can analyze movie trailers and predict how likely people are to see those movies in the theaters.
• Paypal: Paypal has Partnered with Google Cloud to increase security, build a faster network and develop services for its customers.

Services Offered By Google Cloud Platform:

Computing Services:

• Compute Engines
• Container Engine
• App Engine
• Container Registry
• Cloud Functions
• Cloud Pub/Sub

Storage and Database Services:

• Cloud Storage
• Cloud SQL
• Big Table
• Cloud Datastore
• Cloud Spanner
• Persistent Disk
• Cloud Source Repositories

Big Data Services:

• Big Query
• Dataproc
• Cloud Dataflow

Machine Learning Services:

• Cloud Machine Learning
• Cloud Speech API
• Cloud Vision API
• Natural Language API

Networking Services:

• Google Cloud Virtual Network
• Cloud Load Balancing
• Cloud CDN
• Google Cloud Interconnect
• Cloud DNS

Identity and Security Services:

• Google Cloud IAM
• Cloud Resource Manager

GCP Management Services:

• Stackdriver
• Deployment Manager
• Cloud Shell

Advantages of Google Cloud Platform:

• One of the biggest benefits you can get from the Google Cloud Platform is better prices compared to other public cloud services providers.
• Another key benefit of choosing Google Cloud is the presence of a huge private global network using fiber optic cables.
• Google Cloud also makes way for live migrations of the virtual machines. Providers like AWS and Azure cannot offer this unique function.
• Google Cloud can also guarantee better performances.

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