AI/ML Tooling and the Google Cloud AI/ML Landscape

In this chapter, we take a look at the various tools in Google Cloud that can be used to implement AI/ML workloads. We start off with a quick overview of some of the fundamental Google Cloud services that function as the building blocks for almost all workloads on Google Cloud. We then progress toward more advanced services that are used specifically for data science and AI/ML workloads. This is the final chapter in the Basics part of this book, and like the previous two chapters, it provides foundational information that we build upon throughout the book. If you already have knowledge of Google Cloud’s services, this chapter may serve as a refresher for that knowledge. If you are new to Google Cloud, this chapter is an essential part of your learning process, because it introduces concepts that are assumed to be known in the rest of the book.

To describe how each tool is used in the context of data science projects, we will...