Getting started with the Google Cloud Platform

Today, many organizations take advantage of services provided by different cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google's GCP, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, or Oracle Cloud. The advantage of using these cloud vendors is that you don't have to manage infrastructure yourself, and you typically pay per hour for the use of these servers. Also, most of the time, if the organizations are unaware of or fail to address the computing power needed for their applications, it might result in the overprovision of computing resources.

If you're managing the infrastructure yourself, you have to keep an army of people to take care of upkeep activities such as patching an operating system, upgrading the software, and upgrading the hardware. These cloud vendors help us solve business problems by providing these services for us. Also, you get built-in maintenance for the products that these cloud vendors support, whether it...