Prerequisites for using Google Cloud tools and services

This section is going to be pretty simple because Google Cloud makes it very easy to get started in trying out its services. If you have a Gmail account, then you pretty much already have everything you need to get started on Google Cloud. As a generous bonus, Google Cloud gives USD $300 in credits to new customers, plus additional free credits to new customers who verify their business email addresses. You can use those free credits to explore and evaluate Google Cloud’s various services. Also, many of Google Cloud’s services provide a Free Tier, which allows you to use those services free of charge up to their specified free usage limit, the details of which you can find in the Google Cloud documentation (https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features).

If you need to create a new Google Cloud account, you can sign up at https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial, and when you need to go beyond free...