Understanding GCP
Google has been developing its own tools to deliver services such as Gmail, YouTube, and Google Workspace for years. These tools have been converted into services that can be consumed by others. Consumers are given the amazing scalability that Google must use for their own purposes. GCP allows you to choose from computing, storage, networking, big data, and Machine Learning (ML) services to build your application on top of them. The number of services is constantly growing, and new announcements are made on an almost weekly basis. New services and features are released, first, as alpha versions, then as beta versions, and finally, they are made globally available. The early releases are available even earlier for selected customers and partners. This allows the services to be tested by external parties even before their official release!
Google supports several service models, including the following:
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
- Platform-as-a...
