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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.. Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.
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Products
Popular products
A sample of products are listed below, this is not an exhaustive list.
- Compute Engine - IaaS providing virtual machines.
- Kubernetes Engine - A managed container orchestration service for Kubernetes.
- App Engine - PaaS for application hosting.
- Bigtable - IaaS massively scalable NoSQL database.
- BigQuery - SaaS large scale database analytics.
- Cloud Machine Learning Engine - Managed machine learning as a service for training and executing TensorFlow models.
- Cloud AutoML - suite of Machine Learning products that allow developers with limited machine learning expertise to leverage Google's transfer learning and Neural Architecture Search technology. Image labeling service available.
- Cloud Functions - FaaS providing serverless functions to be triggered by cloud events.
- 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.
- Storage - IaaS providing RESTful online file and object storage.
Similarity to services by other cloud service providers
For those with familiarity with other notable cloud service providers, a comparison of similar services may be helpful in understanding Google Cloud Platform's offerings.
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Timeline
- April 2008 - Google App Engine was released as a preview.
- May 2010 - Google Cloud Storage launched.
- July 2012 - Google creates the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program.
- October 2012 - Shortly after the Amazon outage, Google App Engine experienced a major outage that also affected Tumblr and Dropbox.
- April 2013 - BigQuery, first presented in March, went into General Availability (GA).
- December 2013 - After an 18-month preview Google Compute Engine was released into GA.
- February 2014 - Google Cloud SQL was released into GA.
- March 2014 - During the Google Cloud Platform Live, Google announced their biggest price drop affecting all products between a 30% and 85%.
- March 2014 - Google announced Managed Virtual Machines, a new feature to overcome the traditional limitations in Google App Engine.
- February 11, 2016 - Google Cloud Functions announced for preview.
- February 22, 2016 - Google Cloud Dataproc entered general availability.
- October 18, 2016 - Nomulus top-level domain registry announced.
- November 15, 2016 - Google Cloud Jobs API enters is released.
- March 8th, 2017 - Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine enters general availability.
- January 16, 2018 - Google announced it would add five new Cloud Platform regions, in The Netherlands, Montreal, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Finland.
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See also
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle Cloud Platform
- G Suite
- Heroku
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Jelastic
- OpenStack
- Platform as a Service
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References
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External links
- Google Cloud Platform Blog
- Big Data & Machine Learning Blog
- Google Cloud Platform Newsletter
- Google Cloud Platform
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