Google has always been at the top of the hill when it comes to technology. Surprisingly, Google didn't have a federated layer of services; instead, it offered every service separately, which was far from ideal in providing a solid platform for developers to build applications on top of it. In order to solve that, they released Google Cloud Platform, which is a collection of services (infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, containers and big data, as well as many other features) that enables developers and companies to build highly reliable and scalable systems with some of the most up-to-date features, such as Kubernetes and a set of unique machine learning APIs.
The interface is also one of the main points in Google Cloud: it offers you a web console where you basically have an available ssh Terminal that is connected to all your services...
