Google Cloud Platform
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Google Cloud Platform. (GCP) is Google’s hyperscale Cloud offering.
Blurb
Meet your business challenges head on with AI and cloud computing services from Google, including security, data management, and hybrid & multi-cloud.
Summary
Garden stance: We adopt Google Cloud Platform for our estate.
Key points:
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| Position | Third-largest hyperscaler by market share; strongest fit for K8s-native and data/AI greenfield |
| Compute | Decoupled vCPU, RAM, and GPU pricing vs fixed instance families on AWS |
| K8s | Google GKE is the default managed cluster choice; Anthos for multi-cloud fleet ops |
| Observability | Cloud Operations integrates metrics, logging, and tracing; GCP metrics included |
| Security | BeyondCorp lineage; org/folder/project IAM; policy and IaC-first setup patterns |
| Data | BigQuery, Spanner, and shared storage layer for analytics and global consistency |
| Multi-cloud | Hybrid Cloud pattern: GCP spearhead, not full migration from AWS/Azure |
| Tooling | Terraform and Google-native deployment tools; GoLang ecosystem alignment |
Details
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| Position | Third-largest hyperscaler by market share; strongest fit for K8s-native and data/AI greenfield |
| Compute | Decoupled vCPU, RAM, and GPU pricing vs fixed instance families on AWS |
| K8s | Google GKE is the default managed cluster choice; Anthos for multi-cloud fleet ops |
| Observability | Cloud Operations integrates metrics, logging, and tracing; GCP metrics included |
| Security | BeyondCorp lineage; org/folder/project IAM; policy and IaC-first setup patterns |
| Data | BigQuery, Spanner, and shared storage layer for analytics and global consistency |
| Multi-cloud | Hybrid Cloud pattern: GCP spearhead, not full migration from AWS/Azure |
| Tooling | Terraform and Google-native deployment tools; GoLang ecosystem alignment |