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CEO | Thomas Kurian |
Industry | Web service,cloud computing |
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URL | cloud |
Launched | April 7, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-07) |
Current status | Active |
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ASN | 396982![]() |
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Platform | Android,iOS | ||||
Website | cloud |
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite ofcloud computing services offered byGoogle that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing,data storage,data analytics, andmachine learning, alongside a set of management tools.[5] It runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such asGoogle Search,Gmail, andGoogle Docs, according to Verma et al.[6] Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.[7]
Google Cloud Platform providesinfrastructure as a service,platform as a service, andserverless computing environments.
In April 2008, Google announcedApp Engine, a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-manageddata 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[8] ofGoogle Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well asGoogle Workspace (G Suite), enterprise versions ofAndroid andChromeOS, andapplication programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services. Since at least 2022,[9] Google's official materials have stated that "Google Cloud" is the new name for "Google Cloud Platform," which may cause naming confusion.
Like othercloud computing solutions, applications hosted onGoogle Cloud Platform are subject to thefallacies of distributed computing, a series of misconceptions that can lead to significant issues in software development and deployment.[10]
Google lists over 100 products under the Google Cloud brand. Some of the key services are listed below.
A region is a specific geographical location where users can deploy cloud resources. Each region is an independent geographic area that consists of zones.
A zone is a deployment area for Google Cloud Platform resources within a region. Zones should be considered a single failure domain within a region. Most regions have three zones.
As of Q1 2024[update], Google Cloud Platform is available in 40 regions and 121 zones. This is a list of those regions and zones:[46][47]
Region Name | Launch Date | Location | Zones |
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us-west1 | 2016-Q3 | The Dalles, Oregon, US |
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us-west2 | 2018-Q3 | Los Angeles, California, US |
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us-west3 | 2020-Q1 | Salt Lake City, Utah, US |
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us-west4 | 2020-Q2 | Las Vegas, Nevada, US |
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us-central1[48] | 2009 | Council Bluffs, Iowa, US |
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us-east1 | 2015-Q4 | Moncks Corner, South Carolina, US |
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us-east4 | 2017-Q2 | Ashburn, Virginia, US |
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us-east5 | 2022-Q2 | Columbus, Ohio, USA |
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us-south1 | 2022-Q2 | Dallas, Texas, US |
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northamerica-northeast1 | 2018-Q1 | Montréal, Canada |
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northamerica-northeast2 | 2021-Q3 | Toronto, Canada |
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southamerica-east1 | 2017-Q3 | São Paulo, Brazil |
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southamerica-west1 | 2021-Q3 | Santiago, Chile |
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europe-west1 | St. Ghislain, Belgium |
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europe-west2 | 2017-Q2 | London, UK |
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europe-west3 | 2017-Q3 | Frankfurt, Germany |
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europe-west4 | 2018-Q1 | Eemshaven, Netherlands |
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europe-west6 | 2019-Q1 | Zurich, Switzerland |
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europe-west8 | 2022-Q2 | Milan, Italy |
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europe-west9 | 2022-Q2 | Paris, France |
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europe-west10 | 2023-Q3 | Berlin, Germany |
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europe-west12 | 2023-Q1 | Turin, Italy |
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europe-central2 | 2021-Q2 | Warsaw, Poland |
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europe-north1 | 2018-Q2 | Hamina, Finland |
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europe-southwest1 | 2022-Q2 | Madrid, Spain |
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me-west1 | 2022-Q4 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
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me-central1 | 2023-Q2 | Doha, Qatar |
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me-central2[49] | 2023-Q4 | Dammam, Saudi Arabia |
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asia-south1 | 2017-Q4 | Mumbai, India |
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asia-south2 | 2021-Q2 | Delhi, India |
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asia-southeast1 | 2017-Q2 | Jurong West, Singapore |
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asia-southeast2 | 2020-Q2 | Jakarta, Indonesia |
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asia-east1[50] | 2013-Q4 | Changhua County, Taiwan |
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asia-east2 | 2018-Q3 | Hong Kong |
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asia-northeast1 | 2016-Q4 | Tokyo, Japan |
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asia-northeast2 | 2019-Q2 | Osaka, Japan |
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asia-northeast3 | 2020-Q1 | Seoul, Korea |
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australia-southeast1 | 2017-Q3 | Sydney, Australia |
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australia-southeast2 | 2021-Q2 | Melbourne, Australia |
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africa-south1[51] | 2024-Q1 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
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For those familiar with other notable cloud service providers, a comparison of similar services may be helpful in understanding Google Cloud Platform's offerings.
Google Cloud Platform | Amazon Web Services[52] | Microsoft Azure[53] | Oracle Cloud[54] |
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Google Compute Engine | Amazon EC2 | Azure Virtual Machines | Oracle Cloud Infra OCI |
Google App Engine | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Azure App Services | Oracle Application Container |
Google Kubernetes Engine | Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service | Azure Kubernetes Service | Oracle Kubernetes Service |
Google Cloud Bigtable | Amazon DynamoDB | Azure Cosmos DB | Oracle NoSQL Database |
Google BigQuery | Amazon Redshift | Azure Synapse Analytics | Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse |
Google Cloud Functions | AWS Lambda | Azure Functions | Oracle Cloud Fn |
Google Cloud Datastore | Amazon DynamoDB | Azure Cosmos DB | Oracle NoSQL Database |
Google Cloud Storage | Amazon S3 | Azure Blob Storage | Oracle Cloud Storage OCI |
Customers announced in 2023 include:Kingfisher plc,[100] theGovernment of Kuwait,[101]Deutsche Börse Group,[102]Unity Technologies,[103]Uber,[104]FanCode,[105] andDaimler.[106]