Intro to Google Cloud Flashcards
Compute Service
Services related to virtual machines and computing resources
Storage
Services for data storage solutions
Big Data
Tools and services for handling large data sets
Machine Learning
Services and tools for building ML models
Application Services
Services for developing and running applications
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service, raw compute, storage, and network capabilities
PaaS
Platform as a Service, code binding to infrastructure
Compute Engine
IaaS offering virtual machines
App Engine
PaaS offering for application deployment
Regions
Geographical areas with Google Cloud data centers
Zones
Subsections within regions for redundancy
europe-west2
Region example in London
europe-west2-a
Zone example within europe-west2 region
Resource redundancy
Ensuring continuous service by duplicating resources (prevent failure from natural disasters)
Multi-region
Resources spanning multiple regions for reliability
Spanner
Google Cloud’s globally distributed database