Chapter 3: Google Cloud Platform Core Services
Before we do a deep dive into Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, let's have a tour to introduce all of the most important core services. This will help us to understand the overall picture in a much better way. It is important to be familiar with all of the core services, not only for the sake of the exam—it will also allow you to choose the best fit for your use case.
Google divides the services into the following logical groups, and they will be the topics we will cover in this chapter:
- Understanding computing and hosting services
- Exploring storage services
- Getting to know about networking services
- Going through big data services
- Understanding Machine Learning (ML) services
- Learning about identity services
Exam Tip
As a cloud architect, you need to understand how most of the services work from a high level. This chapter should answer some of the fundamental questions in the exam. Note that...