Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform?(GCP), offered by?Google, is a suite of?cloud computing?services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as?Google Search,?Gmail,?Google Drive, and?YouTube.[2][disputed?–?discuss]?Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing,?data storage,?data analytics?and?machine learning.[3]?Registration requires a?credit card?or bank account details.[4]

Google Cloud Platform provides?infrastructure as a service,?platform as a service, 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 first cloud computing service from the company. The service became generally available in November 2011. Since the announcement of App Engine, Google added multiple cloud services to the platform.

Google Cloud Platform is a part[5]?of?Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as?Google Workspace?(G Suite), enterprise versions of?Android?and?Chrome OS, and?application programming interfaces (APIs)?for?machine learning?and enterprise mapping services.