As per various analyst reports, the third most significant public cloud provider is Google with their Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The origins of GCP can be tracked back to 2008 when Google launched the Google App engine to focus on the developer community with its foray into platform as a service (PaaS) types of offerings. Slowly and gradually, Google has expanded the set of services that it offers and it was really around 2012 that Google started to step up the focus around the pace of releases and geo expansion, which gradually made it one of the dominant players in this space. Since then, GCP has expanded into multiple different spaces ranging from core services like compute, storage, networking, and databases to ...
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