Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), like AWS and Microsoft Azure, is a public cloud provider. With GCP and other cloud vendors, customers can use computer resources stored in Google's data centres around the world for free or on a pay-per-use basis.
GCP provides a full range of computing services, including cost management, data management, web and video delivery over the web, AI, and machine learning tools. Serverless computing environments, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service are all offered by the Google Cloud Platform.
GCP is a component of Google Cloud that utilizes the same internal infrastructure as Google's consumer-facing products, including Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive, and YouTube. The Google Cloud consists of the GCP public cloud infrastructure, Google Workspace (previously G Suite), the enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, as well as application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and business mapping services.
Apart from GCP, some other services that are a part of Google Cloud include:
Google Workspace: Formerly known as G Suite and Google Apps. This product provides identity management for organizations, Gmail, and collaboration tools.
Enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS: These phone and laptop operating systems are ways for users to connect to web-based applications.
Application programming interfaces (APIs): These provide software-to-software communication.
GCP was first made available online in 2008 when App Engine was introduced. Google released a preview version of App Engine in April 2008; this developer tool lets users run their web applications on Google infrastructure. The objective of Google's App Engine, according to the company, was to "make it easy to start with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions of users." By the end of 2011, Google had taken App Engine out of beta and turned it into a fully supported, official Google product. Since then, Google has added new services and products and made acquisitions to improve the user interface of its cloud platform. One of the world's leading providers of public clouds today is Google Cloud Platform. Nintendo, eBay, UPS, The Home Depot, Etsy, PayPal, 20th Century Fox, and Twitter are just a few of the companies that use Google Cloud.