TL;DR - Google Cloud
- Google Cloud is Google's cloud computing platform offering compute, storage, and AI services
- It provides Kubernetes, BigQuery, AI/ML tools, and global infrastructure
- Pay-as-you-go pricing with $300 free credit for new users
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Score: 87/100
Pricing Plans
free trialFree Tier
Free
Always free
- $300 credits
- 20+ free products
- No credit card for trial
- 90-day trial
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Pay-As-You-Go
Usage-based
No commitments
- Per-second billing
- Sustained use discounts
- All services available
Committed Use
Custom
1-3 year terms
- Up to 70% discount
- Predictable pricing
- Flexible across services
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud provides cloud infrastructure and services with strengths in data, AI, and Kubernetes. The platform that runs Google's own products, available for everyone.
BigQuery and Vertex AI are standouts. Kubernetes came from Google. The global network is fast.
Organizations wanting cloud with strengths in data and ML choose Google Cloud for Google-scale infrastructure.
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Google Cloud FAQ
Yes, Google Cloud offers $300 in free credits for 90 days, plus always-free tier products like 1 f1-micro VM, 5GB Cloud Storage, and 2M Cloud Functions invocations per month.
Google Cloud uses pay-as-you-go pricing with per-second billing for compute. Sustained use and committed use discounts reduce costs. Pricing is competitive with AWS and Azure.
BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse for analytics. It can query petabytes of data using SQL with no infrastructure to manage. First 1TB of queries per month is free.
GKE is Google's managed Kubernetes service, created by the team that built Kubernetes. It offers autopilot mode for fully managed clusters and is considered the best K8s experience.
Google Cloud offers Vertex AI (ML platform), Vision AI, Speech-to-Text, Translation, Natural Language, and Gemini models. It's particularly strong in AI/ML from Google's research leadership.
AWS has more services and market share. Google Cloud excels at data analytics (BigQuery), AI/ML, and Kubernetes. GCP is often considered more developer-friendly with better networking.
Yes, Firebase is part of Google Cloud, offering app development tools including authentication, real-time database, hosting, and analytics. Firebase has its own generous free tier.