What is Google Cloud?
Google Cloud Platform is an offering by Google and is a suite of cloud computing services Google Cloud is run on the same infra that Google uses internally for all of its end-user products, such as Gmail, Google Search, Google Drive and YouTube etc..
Google Cloud is a platform that provides different environments that could be used as Infrastructure as Service (IaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS) or ServerLess Compute. Google Cloud includes this Google Cloud Platform as a public cloud infrastructure, also the famous G Suite and enterprise versions of applications like Android, Chrome OS.
It also provides a set of management tools to manage diffierent services that are being offered some of which are data analytics, data storage, and (ever increasing in popularity) machine learning.
- Modernize your workloads on world-class Google infrastructure
- Customers are able to migrate pretty quickly using the pre-packaged cloud infrastructure solutions for some of big players like SAP, VMware, Oracle, Windows, Data Center Migration, and other enterprise workloads.
- Protect your data with Google’s multilayered security
- Drive faster and accurate decision-making with intelligent analytics
- Choose hybrid or multi-cloud without lock-in with vendor
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) App Engine
What is Google App Engine (GAE)? It is a Platform as a Service, cloud computing platform from google for developing and hosting web applications on Google managed data centres. The hosted Applications then run in a sandboxed environment and can span across multiple servers. Google App Engine also offers automatic scaling of your web applications based on the load/requests. For example, as your incoming traffic increases for an application, GAE automatically allocates more resources to handle the additional load.
Google App Engine supports multiple languages and applications like PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET. .
The service is free upto certain level of consumed resources but only in standard environment and not in on demand environment. Google charges fees for additional resources like storage, bandwidth or instance hours beyond your free usage.
To be continued….