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

See also

• AWS