Google Cloud
Google Cloud is a collection of Google’s public cloud computing services. Also, the platform comprises a variety of Google-hosted services for computation, storage, and application development that run on Google hardware.
It is a collection of physical assets, such as computers and hard disc drives, as well as virtual resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), housed in Google’s data centers around the world. In fact, each data center is located in a region. Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America are available as regions. Every region is made up of zones that are isolated from one another within the region and each zone is given a name that combines a letter identifier with the region’s name. For example, zone a
in the East Asia region is named asia-east1-a
.
Use of Google Cloud:
The Google Cloud console is a web-based, graphical user interface for managing Cloud projects and resources. When you use the Cloud console, you either create a new project or select an existing project, and then you use the resources you create within that project.
Overview of GC Offerings:
- The Google Compute Engine
- Google App Engine
- Google Cloud Storage
- The Google Kubernetes Engine
- The Google Cloud’s Operations Suite
- Serverless Computing
- Databases
Competitors:
The major competitors of Google Cloud are:
- AWS: Amazon Web Service is an online platform that provides scalable and cost-effective cloud computing solutions. Also, AWS is a broadly adopted cloud platform that offers several on-demand operations like compute power, database storage, content delivery, etc., to help corporates scale and grow.
- Microsoft Azure: Azure is a Cloud Computing platform and an online portal that allows you to access and manage cloud services and resources provided by Microsoft. These services and resources include storing your data and transforming it, depending on your requirements. Thus, to get access to these resources and services, all you need to have is an active internet connection and the ability to connect to the Azure portal.