Imagine a universe where your digital ideas can take flight. A place where you can build, scale, and innovate without the constraints of physical infrastructure. That place is Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
What is Google Cloud Platform?
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services provided by Google. It offers a wide range of services, including computing power, storage, databases, machine learning, networking, and more, all delivered over the internet. GCP enables businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications and services quickly and efficiently without the need to invest in or manage physical infrastructure.
The history of Google Cloud Platform
Backing up a bit, let’s start with the history of GCP.
GCP first came online in 2008 with the launch of a product called App Engine. In April 2008, Google announced a preview release of App Engine, a developer tool that allowed customers to run their web applications on Google infrastructure. (For perspective, this was two years after Amazon had launched its cloud computing service, starting with the release of S3 cloud storage and EC2.)
According to Google, the goal of App Engine was to “make it easy to get started 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.”
To source the feedback needed to make improvements to this preview release, App Engine was made available to 10,000 developers. These early-adopter developers could run apps with 500 MB of storage, 200 million megacycles of CPU per day, and 10 GB of bandwidth per day.
By late 2011, Google pulled App Engine out of preview mode and made it an official, fully supported Google product. In the decade since, Google has built and acquired more services and products to enhance the user experience of its cloud platform.
Today, Google Cloud Platform is one of the top public cloud vendors in the world. Google Cloud customers include Nintendo, eBay, UPS, The Home Depot, Etsy, PayPal, 20th Century Fox, and Twitter.
What are Google Cloud Platform services?
Each GCP region offers a category of services. Some services are limited to specific regions. Major services of Google Cloud Platform include:
- Computing and hosting
- Storage and database
- Networking
- Big Data
- Machine learning
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Author Biography:
Rinesa Diola Audrina, Senior Digital Marketing
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