How Google Cloud Platform is transforming the Cloud Industry
Google Cloud Platform or GCP was established on 2008, exactly 12 years ago and from there it has come a long way and like that it is continuously involved in the development and modernisation of cloud technology. It started with very few features but now standing in 2020 it has firmly established it’s position as one of the best cloud platform in the market. Google as a company always drives it’s passion towards innovation and invention along with research and development. And it has uphold it’s values time and again with google cloud platform.
Best features on Google Cloud Platform :
GCP is a huge platform with a lot of features. It’s impossible to jot down all the features of this amazing platform within a few lines but I will try to keep it concise with the key features of this platform.
Low Latency : GCP has zero to almost no latency when it comes to accesibilty and processing of data. From virtual machine utilization to loading SQL machine learning queries in Big Query or storing a simple object in a cloud bucket or maintaining a pod in a kubernetes cluster, it all goes flawlessly with google compute engine performing with speed and no latency.
Fault Tolerant : Google cloud has an estensive network with it’s fault tolerant services and this comes with the establishment of Google Cloud’s server which has been laid down all around the globe with multiple availability zones. The primary server location is termed as region and the availability zones associated with these regions are termed as zones. For example if we consider US-Central-1 as a region, then it’s zones are US-Central-1a, US-Central-1b, and more. This minimizes the risk of data loss as if a major fault occurs or a natural calamity occurs within one availability zone, then the server will keep on going with shifting to the nearest availability zone to keep the process ongoing.
Pricing : Google Cloud Platform has an extraordinary pricing feature which helps developers and companies to use this platform with an ease. It has a pay as you go model which helps a lot of people to keep their billing on check and not paying for the features which they are not using. For a go getter person like me, there is an incredible feature which is known as the free tier. All Google Cloud customers can use select Google Cloud products — like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery — free of charge, within specified monthly usage limits. When you stay within the Free Tier limits, these resources are not charged against your Free Trial credits or to your Cloud Billing account’s payment method after your trial ends. Also Google provides an advantageof a 90-day trial period that includes $300 in free Cloud Billing credits to explore and evaluate Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform products and services. You can use these credits toward one or a combination of products.
Services : From Virtual Machines to API Management, Google cloud covers all sorts of services. Maintaining Kubernetes clusters and using AI using instances are incredibly easy with GCP. Data visualization and orchesration tools like Lookers and Dataproc are easily available. Storing objects in cloud buckets is asolutely amazing because of the scalability. Natural language processing and accessing SDKs for development is also available as GCP promotes open source. You can use the map API and the cloud shell to build interactive projects and features. Bigquery is one of the most attractive tool in the vast ocean of GCP. You can easily write SQL queries to build machine learning models with datasets provided by Google and I have used it the most.
Scalability : GCP is highly scalable in nature. You don’t have to keep a hold of how much storage you are using because the more you add data into it’s server, the more it manages itself by adding particular layers into it’s data centers. So, it’s a given that you can store PBs of data without thinking about the memory.