September 29, 2023 1 min to read

What is GCP?

Why is so important to use?

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google Cloud Platform, commonly abbreviated as GCP, is a suite of cloud computing services and products offered by Google. GCP provides a wide range of cloud-based solutions, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) offerings. These services can be used for various purposes such as hosting websites and applications, data storage and analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more.

Key GCP Services and Products

Compute Engine: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that allows you to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud.
App Engine: Platform as a Service (PaaS) for building and deploying scalable web applications and APIs.
Kubernetes Engine: Managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration and management.
Cloud Storage: Object storage service for storing and retrieving data in the cloud.
BigQuery: Fully managed, serverless, and highly scalable data warehouse for data analytics.
Cloud Machine Learning Engine: A platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.
Google Cloud Functions: Serverless compute service for running event-driven functions in the cloud.
Cloud Spanner: Globally distributed, strongly consistent, and horizontally scalable database service.
Cloud Pub/Sub: Messaging service for building event-driven systems and real-time analytics.
Firebase: A mobile and web application development platform that is part of GCP, offering tools for app development, authentication, hosting, and more.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration and management.
Cloud AI: Suite of machine learning and artificial intelligence services, including AutoML, Vision AI, Natural Language AI, and more.

Google Cloud Platform competes with other major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure and is used by organizations of all sizes to leverage cloud computing resources and services to scale and optimize their operations and applications.