Google Cloud Platform Services

Google Cloud Platform Features

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What is Google Cloud Platform?

• To capture the growing interest in web applications, Google App Engine was launched in April 2008 as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) resource allowing developers to build and host apps on Google’s infrastructure. 
• App Engine came out of preview in September 2011, and the Google Cloud Platform name was formally adopted in 2013.
• Since the introduction of Google App Engine, the company subsequently released a variety of complementary tools, such as its data storage layer, and its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) component known as the Google Compute Engine, which supports the use of virtual machines. 
• After growing as an IaaS provider, Google added additional products including a load balancer, DNS, monitoring tools, and data analysis services.

Google Cloud Platform products span the following categories:

1. Artificial intelligence & machine learning: AI building blocks, AutoML, Cloud TPU, Media translation (beta), Diagflow Enterprise Edition, Cloud Natural Language, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Translation, Vision AI, Video AI, Cloud Inference API (alpha), and more

2. API management: API Analytics, API Monetization, Cloud Endpoints, Developer Portal, Cloud Healthcare API, and more

3. Compute: Compute Engine, Shielded VMs, Bare Metal, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud GPU, and more

4. Containers: Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Container Registry, Container Security, Google Kubernetes Engine, and more

5. Data analytics: BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Dataflow, Dataprep, Cloud Composer, and more

6. Databases: Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, Firestore, Memorystore, and more

7. Developer tools: Cloud SDK, Container Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Tasks, and more, as well as Cloud Tools for PowerShell and Eclipse

8. Healthcare and life sciences: Apigee Healthcare APIx, Cloud Healthcare API, Cloud Life Sciences (beta), and Healthcare Natural Language AI

9. Internet of Things (IoT): IoT Core, Edge TPU

10. Hybrid and multicloud: Anthos, Apigee API management, Cloud Build, Looker, and Migrate for Anthos

11. Management Tools: Anthos Service Mesh, Cloud APIs, Cloud Console, Cloud Deployment Manager, Cloud Mobile App, Cloud Shell, and more

12. Media: Game Servers, OpenCue, and Transcoder API (beta)

13. Migration: Cloud Data Transfer, Transfer Appliance, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Application migrate, Storage Transfer Service, and more

14. Networking: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Armor, Cloud CDN, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, Network Service Tiers, Network Telemetry, Network Intelligence Center, and more

15. Operations: Cloud Debugger, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler, and Kubernetes Engine Monitoring

16. Security and Identity: Access Transparency, Cloud Identity, Cloud Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Key Management, Identity-Aware Proxy, reCAPTCHA Enterprise, and more

17. Serverless computing: App Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and Workflows

18. Storage: Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, Filestore, Archive Storage, and more

19. Additional services: Google Workspace, Meet, Chrome Enterprise, and Google Maps Platform

Google provides other cloud services, which are not strictly part of Cloud Platform, such as its G Suite productivity and collaboration apps, mobile and web application development platform Firebase, and Orbitera manages multicloud billing and cost management.