Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 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, Gmail and YouTube. GCP provides a series of modular cloud-based services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning. These services allow developers to build and host web applications, mobile and web back-ends, IoT applications, big data analytics pipelines, and more, quickly and efficiently.

Key services offered as part of GCP include: Compute Engine for virtual machines, App Engine for managed application deployments, Container Engine for Kubernetes orchestration, Cloud Functions for event-driven serverless computing, Bigtable for large scale NoSQL storage, SQL for managed relational databases, Storage for object storage, Dataflow for managed data processing services, Dataproc for managed Spark and Hadoop clusters, and Machine Learning for pre-trained machine learning APIs. GCP offers a pay-as-you-go model with per-second billing and autoscaling capabilities to dynamically adjust resource footprint based on workload demands. GCP provides developers with a high level of flexibility, scalability and reliability without the overhead of managing underlying infrastructure.