Google Cloud Platform

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Google Cloud Platform
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operator Google Inc. ( more )
Registration Google account required
On-line April 7, 2008
https://cloud.google.com/

The Google Cloud Platform ( GCP ) offered by Google is a set of cloud computing services that run on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products such as Google Search and YouTube . In addition to some management tools, it also offers a range of modular cloud services such as computing , data storage, data analysis and machine learning . Registration requires a credit card or bank account.

The Google Cloud Platform offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and serverless computing environments.

In April 2008, Google announced App Engine , a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers , which was the company's first cloud computing service. The service became generally available in November 2011. Since the App Engine was announced , Google has added several cloud services to the platform.

The Google Cloud Platform is part of the Google Cloud , which comprises the public cloud infrastructure of the Google Cloud Platform as well as G Suite, the enterprise versions of Android and Google Chrome OS , the programming interfaces for machine learning and the enterprise mapping services.

In 2019, Google Cloud had annual sales of around nine billion dollars.

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