Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Context:
- It can (typically) be accessed by an GCP Account.
- It can (typically) provide GCP Services, such as:
  - Google Compute Engine for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  - Google Cloud Storage for scalable and flexible storage options
  - Google Cloud Bigtable for NoSQL big data database service
  - Google Cloud Firestore for serverless, NoSQL document database
- It can (typically) provide GCP Platforms, such as:
  - Google Cloud Dataflow for stream/batch data processing
  - Google Cloud Datalab for visualizing large datasets
  - Google Cloud BigQuery for serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective multi-cloud data warehouse
- It can provide GCP Industry Solutions, such as:
  - Google Cloud for Retail for personalized customer experiences, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making in the retail industry
  - Google Cloud for Healthcare and Life Sciences for secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions for managing healthcare data
- It can provide GCP Resources, such as:
- It can provide Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Serverless Computing Environments.
- It can run on the same infrastructure a Google End-User Products.
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See: GCP Console, Google Cloud gcloud CLI, Google Cloud SDK, Google Cloud Shell, GCP Duet AI.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform Retrieved:2021-9-17.
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP), 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, Gmail, file storage, 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. Registration requires a credit card or bank account details. Google Cloud Platform provides infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and serverless computing environments. In April 2008, Google announced App Engine, a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers, which was the first cloud computing service from the company. The service became generally available in November 2011. Since the announcement of App Engine, Google added multiple cloud services to the platform. Google Cloud Platform is a part of Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as Google Workspace (G Suite), enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.