Wednesday, 19 October 2022

GCP Service - Compute

 GCP Service - Compute

Google compute service offers businesses to run their services on GCP platform.

Following are the key offerings from GCP in compute

  • Compute Engine
Compute Engine is a Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).It delivers configurable VM which runs on Google infrastructure and delivers high performance.
  • App Engine
App Engine is a Platform as a Service (PaaS.It is a platform to build scalable web apps and mobile back ends.
  • Kubernetes Engine
Kubernetes Engine is a Container as a Service.GKE provides a managed environment for deploying, managing and scaling containerized application using Google infrastructure.

  • Cloud Run
Cloud run is a managed compute platform that enables you to run containers that can be revoked using web request or events

  • Cloud Functions
Cloud Function is a Function as a Service (FaaS). Cloud functions are light weight solution that are generally used for single purpose solution, these are event driven server less platform.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP )

 Google cloud platform is a platform provided by Google that provides cloud computing services on which Google runs its own services.

GCP has competitors such as AWS (Amazon) and Azure (Microsoft)

GCP provides services for compute, storage, databases, data analytics, AI and Machine Learning,Networking,developer tools, etc.

Some of the services from GCP are

Compute - Create and run customizable VM machines 

  • Compute Engine
  •  App Engine
  •  Kubernetes Engine
  • Cloud Functions
  • Cloud Run

 Storage

  •  Cloud Storage
  •  Cloud Filestore
  • Persistent Disks

Databases

  • Cloud Bigtable
  • Cloud Firestore
  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Spanner
  •  MemoryStore
Networking

  • Cloud Virtual Network
  • Cloud Load Balancing
  • Cloud CDN
  • Cloud Interconnect
  • Cloud DNS