Google Cloud Platform
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| Developer(s) | Google Inc. |
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| Initial release | October 6, 2011 |
| Development status | Active |
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| Platform | Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Datastore, Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud SQL |
| Type | Cloud Storage, Web Development |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | cloud |
Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.[1] Alongside a set of management tools, it provides, a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning.[2]
Contents
Products[edit]
Popular products[edit]
A sample of products are listed below, this is not an exhaustive list.
- Google Compute Engine – IaaS providing virtual machines.
- Google App Engine – PaaS for application hosting.
- Bigtable – IaaS massively scalable NoSQL database.
- BigQuery – SaaS large scale database analytics.
- Google Cloud Functions – Currently[when?] in beta testing.[3] FaaS providing serverless functions to be triggered by cloud events.
- Google Cloud Datastore - DBaaS providing a document-oriented database.
- Cloud Pub/Sub - a service for publishing and subscribing to data streams and messages.[4] Applications can communicate via Pub/Sub, without direct integration between the applications themselves.[5]
- Google Storage - IaaS providing RESTful online file and object storage.
Similarity to services by other cloud service providers[edit]
For those with familiarity with other notable cloud service providers, a comparison of similar services may be helpful in understanding Google Cloud Platform's offerings.
| Google Cloud Platform | Amazon Web Services [6] | Microsoft Azure [7] |
|---|---|---|
| Google Compute Engine | Amazon EC2 | Azure Virtual Machines |
| Google App Engine | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Azure Cloud Services |
| Google Cloud Bigtable | Amazon DynamoDB | |
| Google BigQuery | Amazon Redshift | Microsoft Azure SQL Database |
| Google Cloud Functions | Amazon Lambda | Azure Functions |
| Google Cloud Datastore | Amazon DynamoDB | Cosmos DB |
| Google Storage | Amazon S3 | Azure Blob Storage |
Timeline[edit]
- April 2008 – Google App Engine was released as a preview.[8]
- May 2010 – Google Cloud Storage launched.[9]
- July 2012 – Google creates the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program.[10]
- October 2012 – shortly after the Amazon outage, Google App Engine experienced a major outage that also affected Tumblr and Dropbox.[11]
- April 2012 – BigQuery, first presented in March, went into General Availability (GA).[12]
- December 2013 – After an 18-month preview Google Compute Engine was released GA.[13]
- February 2014 -Google Cloud SQL was released as GA.[14]
- March 2014 – During the Google Cloud Platform Live, Google announced their biggest price drop affecting all products between a 30% and 85%.[15]
- March 2014 – Google announced Managed Virtual Machines, a new feature to overcome the traditional limitations in Google App Engine.[16]
- February 11, 2016 – Google Cloud Functions announced for preview [17]
- February 22, 2016 – Google Cloud Dataproc entered general availability.[18]
- October 18, 2016 - Nomulus announced
See also[edit]
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- G Suite
- Heroku
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Jelastic
- OpenStack
- Platform as a Service
References[edit]
- ^ "Why Google Cloud Platform". cloud.google.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Google Cloud Products". cloud.google.com. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
- ^ "Google Cloud Functions Documentation". Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Cloud Pub/Sub - Message-Oriented Middleware Google Cloud Platform". Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Google Brings Serverless Computing To Its Cloud Platform". Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Map AWS services to Google Cloud Platform products". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Map Microsoft Azure services to Google Cloud Platform products". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog". Google Developer Blog. 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason. "Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor 'Google Storage' At I/O". Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Introducing the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program: Helping businesses move to the cloud". Google Enterprise Blog. 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Whoopsie! Google App Engine goes down". GigaOM. 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Google opens up its BigQuery data analytics service to all". GigaOM. 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available with expanded OS support, transparent maintenance, and lower prices". Google Developers Blog. 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Google Cloud SQL now Generally Available with an SLA, 500GB databases, and encryption". Google Cloud Platform Blog. 2014-02-11. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Google Cloud Platform Live – Blending IaaS and PaaS, Moore’s Law for the cloud". Google Cloud Platform Blog. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Bringing together the best of PaaS and IaaS". Google Cloud Platform Blog. 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Google has quietly launched its answer to AWS Lambda".
- ^ "Google Cloud Dataproc managed Spark and Hadoop service now GA".
External links[edit]
- Google Cloud Platform Blog
- Big Data & Machine Learning Blog
- Google Cloud Platform Newsletter
- Google Cloud Platform
