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Google Cloud Joins Forces With EOS

Oct 6 2020

Everything You Want To Know About Anthos - Google's Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Platform

Apr 14 2019

Google to acquire Xively IoT platform from LogMeIn for $50M

Feb 15 2018

Google acquires Qwiklabs to teach developers cloud skills

Nov 21 2016

Google will acquire Apigee for $625 million

Sep 8 2016

Google Brings Serverless Computing To Its Cloud Platform

Feb 9 2016

Google paid $380M to buy Bebop, executive Diane Greene donating her $148M share

Jan 4 2016

Google Launches Cloud Datalab, An Interactive Tool For Exploring And Visualizing Data

Oct 13 2015

Google Opens Cloud Dataflow To All Developers, Launches European Zone For BigQuery

Apr 16 2015

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Challenges

Like other cloud computing solutions, applications hosted on Google Cloud Platform are subject to the fallacies of distributed computing, a series of misconceptions that can lead to significant issues in software development and deployment. ⁶

Products

Google lists over 100 products under the Google Cloud brand. Some of the key services are listed below.

Compute

• App Engine – Platform as a Service to deploy applications developed with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, C#, .Net, Ruby and Go programming languages.

• Compute Engine – Infrastructure as a Service to run Microsoft Windows and Linux virtual machines.

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or GKE on-prem offered as part of Anthos platform⁷⁸ – Containers as a Service based on Kubernetes.

• Cloud Functions – Functions as a Service to run event-driven code written in Node.js, Java, Python, or Go.

• Cloud Run – Compute execution environment based on Knative.⁹ Offered as Cloud Run (fully managed)¹⁰ or as Cloud Run for Anthos.¹¹ Currently supports GCP, AWS and VMware management.¹²

Storage and databases

• Cloud Storage – Object storage with integrated edge caching to store unstructured data.
• Cloud SQL – Database as a Service based on MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Cloud Bigtable – Managed NoSQL database service.¹³
• Cloud Spanner – Horizontally scalable, strongly consistent, relational database service.¹⁴
• Cloud Datastore – NoSQL database for web and mobile applications.¹⁵
• Persistent Disk – Block storage for Compute Engine virtual machines.¹⁶
• Cloud Memorystore – Managed in-memory data store based on Redis and Memcached.¹⁷
• Local SSD: High-performance, transient, local block storage.
• Filestore: High-performance file storage for Google Cloud users.¹⁸
• AlloyDB: Fully managed PostgreSQL database service.¹⁹

Networking

• VPC – Virtual Private Cloud for managing the software defined network of cloud resources.

• Cloud Load Balancing – Software-defined, managed service for load balancing the traffic.
• Cloud Armor – Web application firewall to protect workloads from DDoS attacks.
• Cloud CDN – Content Delivery Network based on Google's globally distributed edge points of presence.
• Cloud Interconnect – Service to connect a data center with Google Cloud Platform
• Cloud DNS – Managed, authoritative DNS hosting service running on the same infrastructure as Google.
• Network Service Tiers – Option to choose Premium vs Standard network tier for higher-performing network.

Big data

• BigQuery – Scalable, managed enterprise data warehouse for analytics.²⁰
• Cloud Dataflow – Managed service based on Apache Beam for stream and batch data processing.²¹
• Cloud Data Fusion – A managed ETL service based on the Open Source Cask Data Application Platform.²²
• Dataproc – Big data platform for running Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark jobs.²³
• Cloud Composer – Managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow.²⁴
• Cloud Datalab – Tool for data exploration, analysis, visualization and machine learning. This is a fully managed Jupyter Notebook service.²⁵
• Cloud Dataprep – Data service based on Trifacta to visually explore, clean, and prepare data for analysis.²⁶
• Cloud Pub/Sub – Scalable event ingestion service based on message queues.²⁷
• Looker Studio – Business intelligence tool to visualize data through dashboards and reports.²⁸
• Looker – Business intelligence platform.²⁹³⁰

Cloud AI

• Cloud AutoML – Service to train and deploy custom machine learning models. As of September 2018, the service is in Beta.³¹
• Cloud TPU – Accelerators used by Google to train machine learning models.³²
• Cloud Machine Learning Engine – Managed service for training and building machine learning models based on mainstream frameworks.³³
• Cloud Talent Solution (formerly Cloud Job Discovery) – Service based on Google's search and machine learning capabilities for the recruiting ecosystem.³⁴
• Dialogflow Enterprise – Development environment based on Google's machine learning for building conversational interfaces.³⁵
• Cloud Natural Language – Text analysis service based on Google Deep Learning models.³⁶
• Cloud Speech-to-Text – Speech to text conversion service based on machine learning.³⁷
• Cloud Text-to-Speech – Text to speech conversion service based on machine learning.³⁸
• Cloud Translation API – Service to dynamically translate between thousands of available language pairs.
• Cloud Vision API – Image analysis service based on machine learning.³⁹
• Cloud Video Intelligence – Video analysis service based on machine learning.⁴⁰

Management tools

• Operations suite (formerly Stackdriver ) – Monitoring, logging, tracing, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud Platform.⁴¹
• Cloud Deployment Manager  - Tool to deploy Google Cloud Platform resources defined in templates created in YAML, Python or Jinja2.⁴²
• Cloud Console – Web interface to manage Google Cloud Platform resources.
• Cloud Shell – Browser-based shell command-line access to manage Google Cloud Platform resources.
• Cloud Console Mobile App – Android and iOS application to manage Google Cloud Platform resources.
• Cloud APIs – APIs to programmatically access Google Cloud Platform resources

Identity and security

• Cloud Identity – Single sign-on (SSO) service based on SAML 2.0 and OpenID.
• Cloud IAM – Identity & Access Management (IAM) service for defining policies based on role-based access control.
• Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy – Service to control access to cloud applications running on Google Cloud Platform without using a VPN.
• Cloud Data Loss Prevention API – Service to automatically discover, classify, and redact sensitive data.
• Security Key Enforcement – Two-step verification service based on a security key.
• Cloud Key Management Service – Cloud-hosted key management service integrated with IAM and audit logging.
• Cloud Resource Manager – Service to manage resources by project, folder, and organization based on the hierarchy.
• Cloud Security Command Center – Security and data risk platform for data and services running in Google Cloud Platform.
• Cloud Security Scanner – Automated vulnerability scanning service for applications deployed in App Engine.
• Access Transparency – Near real-time audit logs providing visibility to Google Cloud Platform administrators.
• VPC Service Controls – Service to manage security perimeters for sensitive data in Google Cloud Platform services.

Internet of things (IoT)

• Cloud IoT Core – Secure device connection and management service for Internet of Things.
• Edge TPU – Purpose-built ASIC designed to run inference at the edge. As of September 2018, this product is in private beta.
• Cloud IoT Edge – Brings AI to the edge computing layer.

API platform

• Maps Platform – APIs for maps, routes, and places based on Google Maps.
• Apigee API Platform – Lifecycle management platform to design, secure, deploy, monitor, and scale APIs.
• API Monetization – Tool for API providers to create revenue models, reports, payment gateways, and developer portal integrations.
• Developer Portal – Self-service platform for developers to publish and manage APIs.
• API Analytics – Service to analyze API-driven programs through monitoring, measuring, and managing APIs.
• Apigee Sense – Enables API security by identifying and alerting administrators to suspicious API behaviors.
• Cloud Endpoints – An NGINX-based proxy to deploy and manage APIs.
• Service Infrastructure – A set of foundational services for building Google Cloud products.

Regions and zones

A region is a specific geographical location where users can deploy cloud resources. Each region is an independent geographic area that consists of zones.

A zone is a deployment area for Google Cloud Platform resources within a region. Zones should be considered a single failure domain within a region. Most regions have three zones.

As of Q1 2024, Google Cloud Platform is available in 40 regions and 121 zones. This is a list of those regions and zones:⁴³⁴⁴

Similarity to services by other cloud service providers

Main article: Cloud-computing comparison

For those familiar with other notable cloud service providers, a comparison of similar services may be helpful in understanding Google Cloud Platform's offerings.

Timeline

• April 2008 – Google App Engine announced in preview⁵²
• May 2010 – Google Cloud Storage launched⁵³
• May 2010 – Google BigQuery and Prediction API announced in preview⁵⁴
• October 2011 – Google Cloud SQL is announced in preview⁵⁵
• June 2012 – Google Compute Engine is launched in preview⁵⁶
• May 2013 – Google Compute Engine is released to GA⁵⁷
• August 2013 -  Cloud Storage begins automatically encrypting each Storage object's data and metadata under the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-128), and each encryption key is itself encrypted with a regularly rotated set of master keys⁵⁸
• February 2014 – Google Cloud SQL becomes GA⁵⁹
• May 2014 – Stackdriver is acquired by Google⁶⁰
• June 2014 – Kubernetes is announced as an open source container manager⁶¹
• June 2014 – Cloud Dataflow is announced in preview⁶²
• October 2014 – Google acquires Firebase⁶³
• November 2014 – Alpha release Google Kubernetes Engine (formerly Container Engine) is announced⁶⁴
• January 2015 – Google Cloud Monitoring based on Stackdriver goes into Beta⁶⁵
• March 2015 – Google Cloud Pub/Sub becomes available in Beta⁶⁶
• April 2015 – Google Cloud DNS becomes generally available⁶⁷
• April 2015 – Google Dataflow launched in beta⁶⁸
• July 2015 – Google releases v1 of Kubernetes; Hands it over to The Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• August 2015 – Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Deployment Manager graduate to GA⁶⁹
• November 2015 – Bebop is acquired, and Diane Greene joins Google⁷⁰
• February 2016 – Google Cloud Functions becomes available in Alpha⁷¹
• September 2016 – Apigee, a provider of application programming interface (API) management company, is acquired by Google⁷²
• September 2016 – Stackdriver becomes generally available⁷³
• November 2016 – Qwiklabs, an EdTech company is acquired by Google⁷⁴
• February 2017 – Cloud Spanner, highly available, globally-distributed database is released into Beta⁷⁵
• March 2017 – Google acquires Kaggle, world's largest community of data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts⁷⁶
• April 2017 – MIT professor Andrew Sutherland breaks the record for the largest ever Compute Engine cluster with 220,000 cores on Preemptible VMs.⁷⁷
• May 2017 – Google Cloud IoT Core is launched in Beta⁷⁸
• November 2017 – Google Kubernetes Engine gets certified by the CNCF⁷⁹
• February 2018 – Google Cloud IoT Core becomes generally available⁸⁰
• February 2018 – Google announces its intent to acquire Xively⁸¹
• February 2018 – Cloud TPUs, ML accelerators for Tensorflow, become available in Beta⁸²
• May 2018 – Google Cloud Memorystore becomes available in Beta⁸³
• April 2019 – Google Cloud Run (fully managed) Beta release⁸⁴
• April 2019 – Google Anthos announced⁸⁵⁸⁶
• November 2019 – Google Cloud Run (fully managed) General availability release⁸⁷
• March 2020 – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Google Cloud postponed the online streaming version of its Google Cloud Next mega-conference, two weeks after it canceled the in-person version.⁸⁸
• October 2020 – Google Cloud announced that it will become a block producer candidate for the EOS network and EOS.IO protocol. Currently the top block producers are cryptocurrency exchanges like OKEx and Binance.⁸⁹⁹⁰
• February 2021 – Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot introduced. ⁹¹⁹²
• May 2021 – Vertex AI announced at Google.io ⁹³
• June 2021 – In 2021, Apple was Google Cloud's biggest customer.⁹⁴
• April 2022 – MobiledgeX acquired and joins Google Cloud.⁹⁵
• March 2023 – Google brings generative AI capabilities to Google Cloud.⁹⁶
• May 2024 Google Cloud partnered with Airtel.⁹⁷⁹⁸

Public Customers

Customers announced in 2023 include: Kingfisher plc,⁹⁹ the Government of Kuwait,¹⁰⁰ Deutsche Börse Group,¹⁰¹ Unity Technologies,¹⁰² Uber,¹⁰³ FanCode,¹⁰⁴ and Daimler.¹⁰⁵

See also

• Amazon Web Services
• Google Workspace
• Heroku
• IBM Cloud
• Infrastructure as a service
• Jelastic
• Microsoft Azure
• OpenStack
• Oracle Cloud
• Platform as a service
• Cloud database
• Google Fiber

External links

• Official website

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