Summary

We've learned a lot of new things in this chapter about the cloud and GCP – let's summarize it. We started this chapter by accessing the GCP console for the first time. We then narrowed things down to find our first priority GCP services for data engineers to focus on.

And we closed the chapter by familiarizing ourselves with important features and terminologies such as quotas and service accounts. 

In the next chapter, we will do a lot more step-by-step, hands-on exercises with practical use cases using the services that we introduced in this chapter to build data solutions. So, make sure you've set up the GCP console properly and are ready for the exercises. In the next chapter, we will start by practicing developing a data warehouse. As we've learned in this chapter, the cloud data warehouse in GCP is BigQuery. We will start by learning about this very famous service – and one of the most important – for GCP data engineers...