Exploring Compute platforms
In the previous section, you learned about why you should choose IaaS VMs to host your workloads. If none of them apply to a project you're working on, then you should most certainly consider the Compute platform options on GCP. Some example good candidate scenarios are as follows:
- Organizations with a code-first mentality and a business model centered around shipping software fast.
- Organizations with small or non-existent IT operations teams.
- Innovation-led businesses that wish to modernize existing applications or deploy new applications with modern cloud-native practices.
- Organizations that wish to reduce their operational overhead by re-architecting some of their workloads to fit cloud-based PaaS services.
If you recall from Chapter 1, An Introduction to Google Cloud for Architects, the PaaS delivery model implies that the cloud provider is responsible for all the layers of the stack, up until, and including, the runtime...