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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, alongside a set of management tools.[2] It runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, and Google Docs, according to Verma, et.al.[3] Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.[4]

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Google

Thomas Kurian

Web service, cloud computing

Increase US$33.1 billion (2023)[1]

Increase US$1.72 billion (2023)[1]

cloud.google.com

April 7, 2008 (2008-04-07)

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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 ChromeOS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.

– Platform as a Service to deploy applications developed with Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, C#, .Net, Ruby and Go programming languages.

App Engine

– Infrastructure as a Service to run Microsoft Windows and Linux virtual machines.

Compute Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or GKE offered as part of Anthos platform[6][7] – Containers as a Service based on Kubernetes.

on-prem

Cloud Functions – to run event-driven code written in Node.js, Java, Python, or Go.

Functions as a Service

Cloud Run – Compute execution environment based on Knative. Offered as Cloud Run (fully managed)[9] or as Cloud Run for Anthos.[9] Currently supports GCP, AWS and VMware management.[10]

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April 2008 – Google App Engine announced in preview

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May 2010 – Google Cloud Storage launched

[51]

May 2010 – Google BigQuery and Prediction API announced in preview

[52]

October 2011 – Google Cloud SQL is announced in preview

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June 2012 – Google Compute Engine is launched in preview

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May 2013 – Google Compute Engine is released to GA

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August 2013 -  Cloud Storage begins automatically encrypting each Storage object's data and under the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-128), and each encryption key is itself encrypted with a regularly rotated set of master keys[55]

metadata

February 2014 – Google Cloud SQL becomes GA

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May 2014 – Stackdriver is acquired by Google

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June 2014 – Kubernetes is announced as an open source container manager

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June 2014 – Cloud Dataflow is announced in preview

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October 2014 – Google acquires Firebase

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November 2014 – Alpha release Google Kubernetes Engine (formerly Container Engine) is announced

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January 2015 – Google Cloud Monitoring based on Stackdriver goes into Beta

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March 2015 – Google Cloud Pub/Sub becomes available in Beta

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April 2015 – Google Cloud DNS becomes generally available

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April 2015 – Google Dataflow launched in beta

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July 2015 – Google releases v1 of Kubernetes; Hands it over to The Cloud Native Computing Foundation

August 2015 – Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Deployment Manager graduate to GA

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November 2015 – Bebop is acquired, and Diane Greene joins Google

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February 2016 – Google Cloud Functions becomes available in Alpha

[68]

September 2016 – Apigee, a provider of application programming interface (API) management company, is acquired by Google

[69]

September 2016 – Stackdriver becomes generally available

[70]

November 2016 – Qwiklabs, an EdTech company is acquired by Google

[71]

February 2017 – Cloud Spanner, highly available, globally-distributed database is released into Beta

[72]

March 2017 – Google acquires Kaggle, world's largest community of data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts

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April 2017 – MIT professor breaks the record for the largest ever Compute Engine cluster with 220,000 cores on Preemptible VMs.[74]

Andrew Sutherland

May 2017 – Google Cloud IoT Core is launched in Beta

[75]

November 2017 – Google Kubernetes Engine gets certified by the CNCF

[76]

February 2018 – Google Cloud IoT Core becomes generally available

[77]

February 2018 – Google announces its intent to acquire Xively

[78]

February 2018 – Cloud TPUs, ML accelerators for Tensorflow, become available in Beta

[79]

May 2018 – Gartner names Google as a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant

[80]

May 2018 – Google Cloud Memorystore becomes available in Beta

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April 2019 – Google Cloud Run (fully managed) Beta release

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April 2019 – Google Anthos announced[83]

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November 2019 – Google Cloud Run (fully managed) General availability release

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March 2020 – Due to the , Google Cloud postponed the online streaming version of its Google Cloud Next mega-conference, two weeks after it canceled the in-person version.[85]

COVID-19 pandemic

October 2020 – Google Cloud announced that it will become a block producer candidate for the EOS network and protocol. Currently the top block producers are cryptocurrency exchanges like OKEx and Binance.[86][87]

EOS.IO

February 2021 – Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot introduced. [89]

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May 2021 – Vertex AI announced at Google.io

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April 2022 – MobiledgeX acquired and joins Google Cloud.

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March 2023 – Google brings capabilities to Google Cloud.[92]

generative AI

Public Customers[edit]

Customers announced in 2023 include: Kingfisher,[93] The Government of Kuwait,[94] Deutsche Börse Group,[95] Unity,[96] Uber,[97] FanCode,[98] and Mercedes-Benz.[99]

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