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.
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Products
Popular products
A sample of products are listed below, this is not an exhaustive list.
- Google Compute Engine â€" IaaS providing virtual machines.
- Google App Engine â€" PaaS for application hosting.
- Bigtable â€" IaaS massively scalable NoSQL database.
- BigQuery â€" SaaS large scale database analytics.
- Google Cloud Functions â€" As of August 2017 is in beta testing. FaaS providing serverless functions to be triggered by cloud events.
- Google 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.
- Google 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 â€" Google App Engine was released as a preview.
- May 2010 â€" Google Cloud Storage launched.
- July 2012 â€" Google creates the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program.
- October 2012 â€" shortly after the Amazon outage, Google App Engine experienced a major outage that also affected Tumblr and Dropbox.
- April 2013 â€" BigQuery, first presented in March, went into General Availability (GA).
- December 2013 â€" After an 18-month preview Google Compute Engine was released into GA.
- February 2014 -Google Cloud SQL was released into GA.
- March 2014 â€" During the Google Cloud Platform Live, Google announced their biggest price drop affecting all products between a 30% and 85%.
- March 2014 â€" Google announced Managed Virtual Machines, a new feature to overcome the traditional limitations in Google App Engine.
- February 11, 2016 â€" Google Cloud Functions announced for preview.
- February 22, 2016 â€" Google Cloud Dataproc entered general availability.
- October 18, 2016 - Nomulus announced.
See also
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- G Suite
- Heroku
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Jelastic
- OpenStack
- Platform as a Service
References
External links
- Google Cloud Platform Blog
- Big Data & Machine Learning Blog
- Google Cloud Platform Newsletter
- Google Cloud Platform
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