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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, alongside a set of management tools. [5]
A region refers to a geographic location of Google's infrastructure facility. Users can choose to deploy their resources in one of the available regions based on their requirement. As of June 1, 2014, Google Compute Engine is available in central US region, Western Europe and Asia East region. A zone is an isolated location within a region.
The four classes, Multi-Regional Storage, Regional Storage, Nearline Storage, and Coldline Storage, differ in their pricing, minimum storage durations, and availability. [5] Interoperability - Google Cloud Storage is interoperable with other cloud storage tools and libraries that work with services such as Amazon S3 and Eucalyptus Systems. [6]
Google data centers are the large data center facilities Google uses to provide their services, which combine large drives, computer nodes organized in aisles of racks, internal and external networking, environmental controls (mainly cooling and humidification control), and operations software (especially as concerns load balancing and fault tolerance).
Google Cloud Dataflow was announced in June, 2014 [3] and released to the general public as an open beta in April, 2015. [4] In January, 2016 Google donated the underlying SDK, the implementation of a local runner, and a set of IOs (data connectors) to access Google Cloud Platform data services to the Apache Software Foundation. [5]
Cloud Spanner Booth at Google Cloud Summit. Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google. [1] It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover.
Bigtable development began in 2004. [1] It is now used by a number of Google applications, such as Google Analytics, [2] web indexing, [3] MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in Bigtable, [4] Google Maps, [5] Google Books search, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, YouTube, [6] and Gmail. [7]
Originally released as a feature in Google App Engine in 2008, [4] Cloud Datastore was announced as a standalone product in 2013 during Google I/O. [5] In 2018 at the Google Cloud Next conference, the second-generation Firestore database was opened to general availability, with a backward-compatibility mode. [6]