This is the Google Cloud Platform
If you are a person or a company looking for a cloud computing service, the first thing you need to do is to choose a Cloud-Provider. One of the most important and successful providers for cloud computing services is Google with the Google Cloud Platform. What this is, what advantages your company can benefit from with this service and how the Google solution differs from the competition we have summarized in this guide.
Google Cloud Platform: The cloud service from Google
The Google Cloud Platform consists of a variety of cloud computing services that Google makes available to users over the Internet and within a public cloud structure. In this regard, Google offers IaaS, PaaS as well as SaaS products. The Google infrastructure is one of the most effective, secure and reliable cloud infrastructures in the world.
Companies do not need their own infrastructure to use Google's comprehensive cloud service. In contrast to Microsoft Azure, for example, the Google Cloud Platform also offers a lot of functionality for end users who do not have extensive IT knowledge. Therefore, the cloud platform is one of the best cloud products for small and medium-sized businesses.
The only drawback is that, as with all other Google products, there is no consulting from the Google company itself for the Google Cloud Platform. Logically, this is especially problematic for these very small and medium-sized companies that do not have their own IT department.
Of course, developers and IT departments of companies can also use the Google Cloud Platform to create and run individual applications. The main feature of Google's solution is that it provides developers with a particularly large number of tools for the fast and efficient development of cloudnative applications.
The Google infrastructure
One of the most important advantages of the Google Cloud Platform is certainly the superior Google infrastructure. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, the Google Cloud Platform belongs to the hyperscalers, than to the providers that could provide their own cloud services anywhere in the world.
This is especially true for Google: The Google Cloud Platform is available in over 73 zones and in 24 regions. Google draws on a total of 144 edge network locations in more than 200 countries and territories. This means that short latency times and high transmission rates can be realized anywhere in the world.
Google customers also benefit from another advantage: all services of the Google Cloud Platform run on the same infrastructure as all other Google products, for example YouTube and the Google search engine. This means that this infrastructure has to meet the highest standards and does so - the best proof of this is how reliably YouTube, for example, works all over the world.
As a user of the Google Cloud Platform, you are therefore using one of the most reliable and secure cloud structures in the world. In addition, the multi-layered security system of the Google Cloud Platform guarantees compliance with the highest security standards. However, as a German customer, you should still be aware that the selected cloud structure may not be DSGVO-compliant.
These are the services you can use with the Google Cloud Platform.
Google Cloud Platform includes an incredible array of cloud computing services. These include, for example, the Google Kubernetes Engine, which allows you to easily and efficiently deploy, scale and manage Kubernetes, which is critical for performance and reliability. Cloud Run can be used to further automate these applications.
Through Cloud SQL, customers can access fully managed relational databases. Dataflow provides analytics for streams with high volumes of data, while Cloud GPU provides machine learning tools. But these are just a few examples of the wide range of services that cover all areas needed for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.
The platform is already being used successfully here
As already mentioned, Google is one of the largest and most successful providers of cloud computing services, alongside Amazon and Microsoft. So it is no wonder that some of the largest and most important corporations in the world rely on the Google Cloud Platform to provide the best services to their own customers and employees around the world.
PayPal, for example, uses the Google Cloud Platform because the company's goal is to be able to offer fair and secure payment methods all over the world. Since such a business model requires both extensive local server capacity and high scalability, the use of a cloud solution is only logical for PayPal.
HSBC is one of the largest and most important banks in the world. Especially in the IT area of financial trading, there are strong load fluctuations. The Google Cloud Platform enables HSBC to ensure that even critical workloads in this particularly sensitive environment are executed quickly and reliably.
Major film studios such as 20th Century Fox use the Google Cloud to improve business performance, while eBay and Bloomberg use the platform to offer their own services globally and, above all, in the language of the respective regions. However, users or customers of the Google Cloud platform include countless other international and German corporations such as Twitter, Metro and Breuninger.