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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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In this lesson, we're going to cover GCP, or Google Cloud Platform, similarly to how we covered it AWS, as well as Microsoft Azure, we're going to talk about the compute and then the storage capabilities of it. And then after that, we're going to cover a comparison of all three cloud providers side by side. So let's get started. The first thing we're going to talk about is from a compute perspective of the GCP platform, we have something there called the Compute Engine, or CE. This is where virtual machines are used to run applications. Very similar to AWS and Azure, you would imagine that there are compute resources available for you to just run virtual machines and applications on it. Every cloud provider basically has this. So it's not uncommon to see that Google has it as well. Cloud Functions, when we start talking about this, this goes back to that event-driven concept of what we talked about to have things like mouse clicks or different applications being run to drive some sort…

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