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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By : Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj
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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By: Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj

Overview of this book

Using a public cloud platform was considered risky a decade ago, and unconventional even just a few years ago. Today, however, use of the public cloud is completely mainstream - the norm, rather than the exception. Several leading technology firms, including Google, have built sophisticated cloud platforms, and are locked in a fierce competition for market share. The main goal of this book is to enable you to get the best out of the GCP, and to use it with confidence and competence. You will learn why cloud architectures take the forms that they do, and this will help you become a skilled high-level cloud architect. You will also learn how individual cloud services are configured and used, so that you are never intimidated at having to build it yourself. You will also learn the right way and the right situation in which to use the important GCP services. By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most out of Google Cloud Platform design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Logging and Monitoring

VPC networks and subnets

The term VPC is used in AWS to refer to the networking layer for EC2 Cloud Virtual Machines, and AWS VPC networks are regional. This implies that in AWS, if you have VMs in different regions, for example, one in the US and the other in the UK, they would have to be in different VPCs.

In the Google Cloud world, on the other hand, resources on the same VPC can reside absolutely anywhere; two GCE VMs could be in different continents, while still residing in the same VPC. How is this possible? Well, clearly under the hood there is an internal routing mechanism that is hidden from the user and that makes this possible. This actually implies that Google VPC networks are a level up vis-a-vis their equivalents on other cloud platforms. We will have more to say on this just a bit later in the chapter when we discuss subnets:

Google networking term

Traditional...