Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud platform with a strong focus on data processing, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

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Core concept

Focus on data-centric services (BigQuery) and managed container infrastructure (GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)). GCP fits cloud-native architectures where data platforms, Kubernetes, and global network connectivity are central requirements.

Assessment

• Use case: Data-intensive applications, machine learning projects, and organisations using Kubernetes as a central runtime platform.
• Advantage: Broad data analytics portfolio, global network, and usage-based price-to-performance models for compute.
• Limitation: Smaller service portfolio than AWS, and less focus on classic enterprise integrations than Azure.

Related topics

• Data Architecture, the data architecture context for Google Cloud.
• Cloud Native, the runtime architecture context for Google Cloud.
• FinOps, the cost control for Google Cloud.