Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google's suite of cloud computing services, running on the same global infrastructure that powers Google Search, Gmail and YouTube. It offers computing, storage, databases, networking, data analytics and machine learning services.

Key GCP services include Compute Engine (virtual machines), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run (serverless containers), Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery (a serverless data warehouse) and Vertex AI. GCP is especially known for data analytics, Kubernetes, which Google originally created, and AI tools.