July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
Content preview from Google Cloud Platform for Developers
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Compute services on the GCP
Today's public clouds offer a range of compute services targeting broad categories of user needs. These services tend to fall into one of four categories:
- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Containers as a service (CaaS)
- Platform as a service (PaaS)
- Functions as a service (FaaS)
Services in these categories cater to different needs, primarily through abstracting away increasing levels of the underlying infrastructure and associated operational efforts. The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) targets each of these general categories with dedicated products, illustrated as follows:
Google Cloud Compute Services—from bottom ...