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GCP - Glossary

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by Google terms explained - Compute Engine, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Spanner and much more.

A

AI Platform

Machine learning platform that provides tools for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.

Anthos

A platform for managing applications across multiple clouds and on-premises environments.

B

BigQuery

A fully managed data warehouse service for analyzing large datasets using SQL-like queries.

C

Cloud Storage

Scalable object storage for storing and retrieving any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

Cloud Run

A fully managed compute platform that automatically scales your stateless containers.

CDN

Content delivery network service that improves the delivery of web and video content to users.

D

Deployment Manager

Infrastructure-as-code service that allows you to create, manage, and deploy resources using configuration files.

F

Functions

Serverless compute service similar to AWS Lambda, enabling you to run event-driven code without managing servers.

Firestore

GCP's NoSQL database service for storing, syncing, and querying data for web, mobile, and server development.

I

IAM

Identity and Access Management (IAM): GCP's service for managing permissions and access to resources, controlling who can do what within GCP.

S

Spanner

Cloud Spanner: Globally distributed and horizontally scalable relational database service.

Pub/Sub

Cloud Pub/Sub: Messaging service for building event-driven systems and real-time analytics.

SQL

Cloud SQL: Managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

V

VPC

Isolated network environments within GCP that allow you to control communication between resources and configure network settings.

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