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What is Google Cloud? - BigQuery Tutorial
From the course: Build a No-Code ETL Pipeline with Google BigQuery
What is Google Cloud?
- [Instructor] Have you ever wondered how modern companies manage to handle and analyze terabytes or even petabytes of data without setting up massive data centers? It's all thanks to cloud platforms like Google Cloud. Google Cloud is an online platform where you can access services like BigQuery that run entirely in the cloud. That means that there is no setup or maintenance of physical computers on your end. You can focus on building and analyzing your data pipelines while Google Cloud takes care of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. So how do you get started with Google Cloud? First, you'll need the Google Cloud account, which you can set up with a free trial if you haven't done so already. Once you have an account, you'll create what's called a project. A project is simply a container that helps you organize all the resources that you use in Google Cloud. Each project is attached to a billing account, which you use to pay for the resources that you utilize. After creating a…