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Google Cloud Platform Overview
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a collection of Google’s
computing resources made available via services to the
general public as a public cloud offering.
• The Google Cloud Platform first established on October 6,
2011 has a market share of 13% giving stiff competition
to Amazon AWS cloud and Microsoft Azure.
• GCP offers over 50 services including Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and
Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings in the categories of
Compute, Storage & Databases, Networking, Big Data,
Machine Learning, Identity & Security, and Management &
Developer tools.
• It is a set of Computing, Networking, Storage, Big Data,
Machine Learning and Management services provided by
Google that runs on the same Cloud infrastructure that
Google uses internally for its end-user products.
• Enables developers to build, test and deploy applications
on Google’s highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
• Google Cloud Platform is a set of modular cloud-based
services that allow you to create anything from simple
websites to complex applications
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Feature Wise Comparison
AWS Azure GCP
Compute Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Virtual Machines and Virtual
Machine Scale Sets
Google Compute Engine
(GCE)
Storage
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Service)
Microsoft Azure Storage Google Cloud Storage
Databases
Relational Database Service
(RDS)
Azure SQL database Cloud SQL
Location 42 availability zones globally
Presence in 32 regions across
the world
Presence in 33 countries
Documentation Best in class High quality High quality
Pricing/ Discount Options
One-year free trial along with
a discount of up to 75% for a
1-3 year commitment
Up to 75% discount for a
commitment ranging from
one to three years
GCP Credit of $300 for 12
months apart from a
sustained use discount of up
to 30%
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Better Pricing Than Competitors
▌ Google bills in minute-level increments (with a 10-minute minimum charge)so you only pay for the compute time you use and
a big bonus is that they give you discounted prices for long-running workloads with no up-front commitment required.
▌ Instances are simply lower in cost on Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine alone is typically between 40% – 50% cheaper
than AWS and Azure.
When it comes to Google Cloud Platform you basically get more IOPS for less than 1/3 of the
cost. IOPS is a measurement for input/output operations per second and how often a device can
perform IO tasks. In most cases, the great number of IOPS, the better the performance.
Once you do a comparison between the two it is again about 1/3 of the cost to use Google Cloud
Platform.
Azure vs GCP
AWS vs GCP
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Better VMs Pricing
Small($) Medium($) Large($) Xlarge($)
Amazon 83.00 160.27 310.54 631.08
Azure 90.19 163.92 310.65 652.02
Google 62.24 115.98 214.96 446.92
Softlayer 128.00 223.00 376.00 766.00
Across the chart from
small VMs to extra
large VMs Google Cloud
is the least expensive
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Strong Global Network
▌ One thing that sets Google Cloud Hosting apart from some of the other players is that their network is one of the biggest in the world. It has a private
distributed backbone between all the data centers.
▌ On June 29, 2016, Google announced their investment in the faster cable system which gives Google access to up to 10Tbps (Terabits per second) of the
cable’s total 60Tbps bandwidth between the US and Japan.
▌ The 9,000km trans-Pacific cable is the highest-capacity undersea cable ever built and lands in Oregon in the United States and two landing points in Japan.
▌ Google is also one of six members which has sole access to a pair of 100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths optical transmission strands between Oregon and Japan.
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Tiered Cloud Network
Google Cloud Platform launched its separate premium tier and standard tier network. This makes them the first
major public cloud to offer a tiered cloud network
• The premium tier delivers traffic over Google’s well-provisioned low
latency, highly reliable global network.
• There are at least three independent paths (N+2 redundancy) between
any two locations on the Google network helping ensure that traffic
continues to flow between the locations even in the event of a
disruption.
GCP Premier Tier GCP Standard Tier
• The standard tier delivers network quality comparable to that of
other major public clouds. It delivers outbound traffic from GCP to
the internet over transit (ISP) networks instead of Google’s network.
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State of the Art Security
• Choosing Google Cloud Platform means you get the benefit of a security model that has been built upon over the course of 15
years, and currently secures products and services like Gmail, Search, etc.
• Google currently employs more than 500 full-time security professionals.
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Redundant Backups
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Google Cloud Storage is designed for 99.99999999%
durability and has 4 different types of storage:
• Coldline storage
• Nearline
• Regional storage
• Multi-regional storage
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It stores data redundantly, with automatic
checksums to ensure data integrity.
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Multi-regional storage is also geo-redundant, means
cloud storage stores your data redundantly in at
least two regions within the multi-regional location of
the bucket. As it pertains to Google Cloud hosting
this ensures you will never lose your data, even in
the case of a disaster.
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Live Migration of Virtual Machines
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• Google offers live migration of virtual machines
between host machines, which allows businesses
to be up and running 24*7 without any hindrance
in performance.
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• Benefits of live migrations allow for the engineers
at Google to better address issues such as
patching, repairing, and updating the software
and hardware, without the need for you to worry
about machine reboots.
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• Google also offers resizing of persistent
disks without any downtime.
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GCP Revenue Q1 2020
• Sparked by strong demand for IaaS, analytics and industry-specific solutions, Google Cloud Q1 revenue
surged 52% in Q1 as its growth rate again came in significantly higher than much-larger competitors
Microsoft and Amazon’s AWS.
• Google Cloud posted Q1 revenue of $2.8 billion following its equally strong Q4 figure of $2.6 billion, up
52%.
• The Q1 growth rate of 52% for Google Cloud is particularly impressive in light of the global economic
slowdown triggered in early March by the COVID-19 pandemic.
CSP Q1 2020 (in USD) Growth Rate
Microsoft Azure 13.3 Billion 40%
Amazon Web Services 10.2 Billion 33%
Google Cloud Platform 2.8 Billion 52%
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Simplicity
Data Analytics
& ML
High
Quality
Fast
Growing
Integrated
Open
Source
Software
Speed
Pricing
High
Quality
Live Migration
Intuitive simplicity and easy to use interface make this platform stand
out among the top three
An expertise Google has with big data analytics and
ML applications enables customers to easily leverage
that expertise from within Google Cloud Services
Allows users to enjoy high-quality
networking, storage, computing, and
databases with GCP
Strategic partnerships with leading open source-centric
companies in data management and analytics allow to tightly
integrate such services into Google Cloud
Though late entrant, GCP is showing
considerable growth. Its revenue rose 52%
for Q1 2020
With Google investing in Fast Cable System,
customers can get speed up to 10Tbs
The possibility to use simple per-
minute rates and automatic
discount options set apart Google
Cloud from other platforms
Google offers live migration of virtual
machines between host machines, which
allows businesses to be up and running 24*7
without any hindrance in performance
Allows users to enjoy high-quality
networking, storage, computing,
and databases with GCP
Summary
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