Understanding cloud categories

Now, as we have seen the 11 broad categories of the services in GCP, we will try to understand each of them. The following table specifies the different features of these categories:

Cloud category Features

Compute
  • High-performance, scalable VMs
  • Build apps, scale automatically
  • Automated container management
  • Private docker container images
  • Serverless applications on Google's infrastructure
Storage and databases
  • Managed databases
  • Object storage
  • Archival

Networking
  • Worldwide autoscaling and load balancing
  • Manage networking for your resources
  • Highly available global DNS network
  • Fast, high availability interconnect
  • Content delivery network
Big data
  • Analytics data warehouse
  • Batch and stream ...

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