Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform is the suite of cloud computing services operated by Google, launched in 2008, providing infrastructure, platform, and software services running on the same infrastructure that powers Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, and other Google products, offering over one hundred products including computing, data storage, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence services, adopted by Spotify, PayPal, Twitter, Snapchat, eBay, and The New York Times for their cloud infrastructure needs, with annual revenue exceeding thirty billion dollars. The computing services include Compute Engine for virtual machines with custom machine types and per-second billing, Google Kubernetes Engine as the original Kubernetes creator providing managed container orchestration, Cloud Run for serverless container execution scaling to zero, App Engine for fully managed platform as a service, Cloud Functions for event-driven serverless computing, and Bare Metal for dedicated physical servers. The data and analytics services include BigQuery for serverless data warehousing with petabyte-scale SQL queries, Cloud Storage for unified object storage across performance tiers, Cloud SQL for managed relational databases, Firestore and Cloud Datastore for NoSQL document databases, Spanner for globally distributed relational databases, and Memorystore for managed Redis. The machine learning and artificial intelligence services include Vertex AI for end-to-end machine learning platform with model training, deployment, and monitoring, Tensor Processing Units for custom machine learning hardware accelerators, Vision AI for image analysis, Natural Language AI for text analysis, Translation AI for machine translation, and the Gemini models. The networking includes Virtual Private Cloud, Cloud CDN, Cloud DNS, and Cloud Load Balancing. The security services include Identity and Access Management. Designed for enterprises and developers.