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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By : Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By: Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leading cloud service suites and offers solutions for storage, analytics, big data, machine learning, and application development. It features an array of services that can help organizations to get the best out of their infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers a variety of topics specific to Google's Professional Cloud Architect official exam syllabus and guides you in using the right methods for effective use of GCP services. You'll start by exploring GCP, understanding the benefits of becoming a certified architect, and learning how to register for the exam. You'll then delve into the core services that GCP offers such as computing, storage, and security. As you advance, this GCP book will help you get up to speed with methods to scale and automate your cloud infrastructure and delve into containers and services. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover security best practices and even gain insights into designing applications with GCP services and monitoring your infrastructure as a GCP architect. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in all the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect exam and use GCP services effectively.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction to GCP
5
Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
15
Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance
17
Section 4: Managing Implementation
19
Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
21
Section 6: Exam Focus

AutoML

AutoML comes into play when pretrained models are not fit for purpose. As an example, the Vision API can recognize a table, but what if we want to recognize a particular table that our company produces? The Vision API cannot do that for us.

In such a case, we need to use AutoML or train our own model. As you have probably already guessed, the former is a much easier method. What AutoML does is it takes datasets from you, trains and deploys the model, and then serves it through the REST API. This sounds a little bit like magic, right? Take a look at the following diagram:

Note that there are five services available that allow you to train your custom model:

  • AutoML Vision: This classifies your images according to your own defined labels.
  • AutoML Translation: This performs translation queries, returning results specific to your domain.
  • AutoML Natural Language: This classifies...