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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google's cloud computing platform with strong data and ML capabilities
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
steep
Maturity
mature
Languages: Multiple
Architecture: iaas, paas, saas
When to Use
- +Data analytics workloads
- +Machine learning projects
- +Kubernetes-native applications
- +Need BigQuery
When Not to Use
- -Heavy Windows/.NET workloads
- -Need most services from one provider
- -Limited to specific AWS services
Strengths
- Best-in-class data/ML services
- BigQuery for analytics
- Kubernetes (GKE) leadership
- Global network performance
- Competitive pricing
- Developer experience
Weaknesses
- Smaller service portfolio than AWS
- Less enterprise tooling than Azure
- Regional availability
- Organizational changes
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: cloud
Quick Facts
- Category
- Cloud Provider
- License
- commercial
- Pricing
- usage based (free tier)
- Community
- very large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- high
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Data analytics
- Machine learning
- Kubernetes workloads
- Real-time processing
- Mobile backends
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