Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud computing service by Google that offers hosting on the same supporting infrastructure that Google uses internally for end-user products like Gmail, Google Search, Maps, and YouTube.

Elements

• Google Compute Engine – IaaS service providing virtual machines similar to Amazon EC2.
• Google App Engine – PaaS service for directly hosting applications similar to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• BigTable – IaaS service providing map reduce services. Similar to Hadoop.
• BigQuery – IaaS service providing Columnar database. Similar to Amazon Redshift.
• Google Cloud Functions – Currently in alpha testing FaaS service allowing functions to be triggered by events without developer resource management similar to Amazon Lambda or IBM OpenWhisk.

GCP vs. AWS

• Compute
  • Compute Engine vs. EC2
  • App Engine vs. Elastic Beanstalk
  • Container Engine vs. EC2
  • Container Registry vs. ECR
  • Cloud Functions vs. Lambda
• Identity & Security
  • Cloud IAM vs. IAM
  • Cloud Resource Manager vs. n/a
  • Cloud Security Scanner vs. Inspector
  • Cloud Platform Security vs. n/a
• Networking
  • Cloud Virtual Network vs. VPC
  • Cloud Load Balancing vs. ELB
  • Cloud CDN vs. CloudFront
  • Cloud Interconnect vs. Direct Connect
  • Cloud DNS vs. Route53
• Storage and Databases
  • Cloud Storage vs. S3
  • Cloud Bigtable vs. DynamoDB
  • Cloud Datastore vs. SimpleDB
  • Cloud SQL vs. RDS
  • Persistent Disk vs. EBS
• Big Data
  • BigQuery vs. Redshift
  • Cloud Dataflow vs. EMR
  • Cloud Dataproc vs. EMR
  • Cloud Datalab vs. n/a
  • Cloud Pub/Sub vs. Kinesis
  • Genomics vs. n/a
• Machine Learning
  • Cloud Machine Learning vs. Machine Learning
  • Vision API vs. Rekognition
  • Speech API vs. Polly
  • Natural Language API vs. Lex
  • Translation API vs. n/a
  • Jobs API vs. n/a

• Compute Services (GCP vs. AWS):
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Compute Engine vs. EC2
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS): App Engine vs. Elastic Beanstalk
  • Containers as a Service: Container Engine vs. EC2

Compute IaaS comparison
Feature	Amazon EC2	Compute Engine
Virtual machines	Instances	Instances
Machine images	Amazon Machine Image (AMI)	Image
Temporary virtual machines	Spot instances	Preemptible VMs
Firewall	Security groups	Compute Engine firewall rules
Automatic instance scaling	Auto Scaling	Compute Engine autoscaler
Local attached disk	Ephemeral disk	Local SSD
VM import	Supported formats: RAW, OVA, VMDK, VHD	Supported formats: AMI, RAW, VirtualBox
Deployment locality	Zonal	Zonal

See also

• AWS