The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet
Every product in the Google Cloud family described in <=4 words (with liberal use of hyphens and slashes
by the Google Developer Relations Team
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Note: This list only includes products that are publicly available. There are several products in pre-release/private-alpha that will not be included until they go public beta or GA.
Fun flashback - here's the list of products in 2014
Many of these products have a free tier. There is also a free trial that will enable you try almost everything.
All Products
Compute
- Cloud Functions: Event-driven serverless functions
🔗 📄 - App Engine: Managed app platform
🔗 📄 - Cloud Run: Serverless for containerized applications
🔗 📄 - Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Managed Kubernetes/containers
🔗 📄 - Compute Engine: VMs, GPUs, TPUs, Disks
🔗 📄 - Bare Metal Solution: Hardware for specialized workloads
🔗 - Preemptible VMs: Short-lived compute instances
🔗 📄 - Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs
🔗 📄 - Sole-tenant Nodes: Dedicated physical servers
🔗 📄 - VMware Engine: VMware as a service
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Storage
- Cloud Filestore: Managed NFS server
🔗 📄 - Cloud Storage: Multi-class multi-region object storage
🔗 📄 - Persistent Disk: Block storage for VMs
🔗 📄 - Local SSD: VM locally attached SSDs
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Database
- Cloud Bigtable: Petabyte-scale, low-latency, non-relational
🔗 📄 - Cloud Firestore: Serverless NoSQL document DB
🔗 📄 - Cloud Memorystore: Managed Redis and Memcached
🔗 📄 - Cloud Spanner: Horizontally scalable relational DB
🔗 📄 - Cloud SQL: Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
🔗 📄 - Database Migration Service: Migrate to Cloud SQL
🔗 📄 - Cloud SQL Insights: SQL Inspector
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Data and Analytics
- BigQuery: Data warehouse/analytics
🔗 📄 - BigQuery BI Engine: In-memory analytics engine
📄 - BigQuery ML: BigQuery model training/serving
📄 - Cloud Composer: Managed workflow orchestration service
🔗 📄 - Cloud Data Fusion: Graphically manage data pipelines
🔗 📄 - Cloud Dataflow: Stream/batch data processing
🔗 📄 - Cloud Dataprep: Visual data wrangling
🔗 📄 - Cloud Dataproc: Managed Spark and Hadoop
🔗 📄 - Cloud Pub/Sub: Global real-time messaging
🔗 📄 - Data Catalog: Metadata management service
🔗 📄 - Data Studio: Collaborative data exploration/dashboarding
🔗 📄 - Looker: Enterprise BI and Analytics
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Hybrid and Multi-cloud
- Anthos: Enterprise hybrid/multi-cloud platform
🔗 📄 - Anthos Clusters: Hybrid/on-prem Kubernetes Engine
🔗 📄 - Anthos Config Management:Policy and security automation
🔗 📄 - Anthos Service Mesh: Managed service mesh (Istio)
🔗 📄 - Cloud Run for Anthos: Serverless development for Anthos
🔗 📄 - Google Cloud Marketplace for Anthos: Pre-configured containerized apps
🔗 📄 - Migrate for Anthos: Migrate VMs to Kubernetes Engine
🔗 📄 - Operations: Monitoring, logging, troubleshooting
🔗 📄 - Cloud Build: Continuous integration/delivery platform
🔗 📄 - Traffic Director: Service mesh traffic management
🔗 📄 - Apigee API Management: API management, development, security
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AI/ML
- AI Platform Data Labeling: Data labeling by humans
📄 - AI Platform Deep Learning VMs: Preconfigured VMs for deep learning
🔗 📄 - AI Platform Deep Learning Containers: Preconfigured containers for deep learning
🔗 📄 - AI Platform Notebooks: Managed JupyterLab notebook instances
🔗 📄 - AI Platform Pipelines: Hosted ML workflows
🔗 - AI Platform Predictions: Autoscaled model serving
📄 - AI Platform Training: Distributed AI training
📄 - AI Platform: Managed platform for ML
🔗 - AutoML Natural Language: Custom text models
📄 - AutoML Tables: Custom structured data models
🔗 📄 - AutoML Translation: Custom domain-specific translation
🔗 📄 - AutoML Video Intelligence: Custom video annotation models
🔗 📄 - AutoML Vision: Custom image models
🔗 📄 - Cloud Natural Language API: Text parsing and analysis
🔗 📄 - Cloud Speech-To-Text API: Convert audio to text
🔗 📄 - Cloud Talent Solutions API: Job search with ML
🔗 📄 - Cloud Text-To-Speech API: Convert text to audio
🔗 📄 - Cloud TPU: Hardware acceleration for ML
🔗 📄 - Cloud Translation API: Language detection and translation
🔗 📄 - Cloud Video Intelligence API: Scene-level video annotation
🔗 📄 - Cloud Vision API: Image recognition and classification
🔗 📄 - Contact Center AI: AI in your contact center
🔗 📄 - Dialogflow: Create conversational interfaces
🔗 📄 - Document AI: Analyze, classify, search documents
🔗 📄 - Explainable AI: Understand ML model predictions
🔗 📄 - Recommendations AI: Create custom recommendations
🔗 📄 - Vision Product Search: Visual search for products
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Networking
- Carrier Peering: Peer through a carrier
📄 - Direct Peering: Peer with GCP
📄 - Dedicated Interconnect: Dedicated private network connection
📄 - Partner Interconnect: Connect on-prem network to VPC
📄 - Cloud Armor: DDoS protection and WAF
🔗 📄 - Cloud CDN: Content delivery network
🔗 📄 - Cloud DNS: Programmable DNS serving
🔗 📄 - Cloud Load Balancing: Multi-region load distribution/balancing
🔗 📄 - Cloud NAT: Network address translation service
📄 - Cloud Router: VPC/on-prem network route exchange (BGP)
📄 - Cloud VPN (HA): VPN (Virtual private network connection)
📄 - Network Service Tiers: Price vs performance tiering
🔗 📄 - Network Telemetry: Network telemetry service
🔗 📄 - Traffic Director: Service mesh traffic management
🔗 📄 - Google Cloud Service Mesh: Service-aware network management
🔗 📄 - Virtual Private Cloud: Software defined networking
🔗 📄 - VPC Service Controls: Security perimeters for API-based services
🔗 📄 - Network Intelligence Center: Network monitoring and topology
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Internet of Things (IoT)
Gaming
- Google Cloud Game Servers: Orchestrate Agones clusters
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Identity and Security
- Access Transparency: Audit cloud provider access
🔗 📄 - Assured Workloads: Workload compliance controls
🔗 📄 - Binary Authorization: Kubernetes deploy-time security
🔗 📄 - Certificate Authority Service: Managed private CAs
🔗 📄 - Cloud Asset Inventory: All assets, one place
🔗 📄 - Cloud Audit Logs: Audit trails for GCP
🔗 📄 - Cloud DLP: Classify and redact sensitive data
🔗 📄 - Cloud HSM: Hardware security module service
🔗 📄 - Cloud EKM: External keys you control
🔗 📄 - Cloud IAM: Resource access control
🔗 📄 - Cloud Identity: Manage users, devices & apps
🔗 📄 - Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy: Identity-based app access
🔗 📄 - Cloud KMS: Hosted key management service
🔗 📄 - Cloud Resource Manager: Cloud project metadata management
🔗 📄 - Security Command Center: Security management and data risk platform
🔗 📄 - Cloud Security Scanner: App engine security scanner
🔗 📄 - Confidential Computing: Encrypt data in-use
🔗 📄 - Context-aware Access: End-user attribute-based access control
🔗 📄 - Event Threat Detection: Scans for suspicious activity
🔗 - Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory: Managed Microsoft Active Directory
🔗 📄 - Secret Manager: Store and manage secrets
🔗 📄 - Security Key Enforcement: Two-step key verification
🔗 - Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs
🔗 📄 - Titan Security Key: Two-factor authentication (2FA) device
🔗 - VPC Service Controls: VPC data constraints
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Management Tools
- Cloud APIs: APIs for cloud services
🔗 📄 - Cloud Billing API: Programmatically manage GCP billing
📄 - Cloud Billing: Billing and cost management tools
🔗 📄 - Cloud Console: Web-based management console
🔗 - Cloud Deployment Manager: Templated infrastructure deployment
🔗 📄 - Cloud Mobile App: iOS/Android GCP manager app
🔗 - Private Catalog: Internal Solutions Catalog
🔗 📄 - Cloud Debugger: Live production debugging
🔗 📄 - Error Reporting: App error reporting
🔗 📄 - Cloud Logging: Centralized logging
🔗 📄 - Cloud Monitoring: Infrastructure and application monitoring
🔗 📄 - Cloud Profiler: CPU and heap profiling
🔗 📄 - Cloud Trace: App latency insights
🔗 📄 - Transparent SLIs: Monitor GCP services
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Developer Tools
- Cloud Build: Continuous integration/delivery platform
🔗 📄 - Cloud Code for IntelliJ: IntelliJ GCP tools
🔗 - Cloud Code for VS Code: VS Code GCP tools
🔗 - Cloud Code: Cloud native IDE extensions
🔗 📄 - Cloud Tools for Eclipse: Eclipse GCP tools
🔗 - Cloud Tools for Visual Studio: Visual Studio GCP tools
🔗 - Gradle App Engine Plugin: Gradle App Engine plugin
🔗 - Maven App Engine Plugin: Maven App Engine plugin
🔗 - Cloud SDK: CLI for GCP
🔗 📄 - Cloud Shell: Browser-based terminal/CLI
🔗 📄 - Artifact Registry: Universal package manager
🔗 📄 - Cloud Source Repositories: Hosted private git repos
🔗 📄 - Container Registry: Private container registry/storage
🔗 📄 - Container Analysis: Automated security scanning
🔗 📄 - Eventarc: Event-driven Cloud Run services
🔗 📄 - Cloud Scheduler: Managed cron job service
🔗 📄 - Cloud Tasks: Asynchronous task execution
🔗 📄 - Cloud Workflows: HTTP services orchestration
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Migration to GCP
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service: Bulk import analytics data
🔗 📄 - Cloud Data Transfer: Data migration tools/CLI
🔗 - Google Transfer Appliance: Rentable data transport box
🔗 📄 - Storage Transfer Service: Online/on-premises data transfer
📄 - Migrate for Anthos: Migrate VMs to containers
🔗 📄 - Migrate for Compute Engine: Compute Engine migration tools
🔗 📄 - Migrate from Amazon Redshift: Migrate from Redshift to BigQuery
🔗 - Migrate from Teradata: Migrate from Teradata to BigQuery
🔗 - VM Migration: VM migration tools
🔗 - Cloud Foundation Toolkit: Infrastructure as Code templates
🔗 - KF: Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes [
🔗 (https://cloud.google.com/migrate/kf/docs)
API Platform and Ecosystems
- API Analytics: API metrics
🔗 - API Monetization: Monetize APIs
🔗 - Apigee API Platform: Develop, secure, monitor APIs
🔗 - API Gateway: Fully managed API Gateway
🔗 - Apigee Hybrid: Manage hybrid/multi-cloud API environments
🔗 📄 - Apigee Sense: API protection from attacks
🔗 - Cloud Endpoints: Cloud API gateway
🔗 - Cloud Healthcare API: Healthcare system GCP interoperability
🔗 - Developer Portal: API management portal
🔗 - GCP Marketplace: Partner & open source marketplace
🔗 - AppSheet: No-code App creation
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Google Maps Platform
- Directions API: Get directions between locations
🔗 - Distance Matrix API: Multi-origin/destination travel times
🔗 - Geocoding API: Convert address to/from coordinates
🔗 - Geolocation API: Derive location without GPS
🔗 - Maps Embed API: Display iframe embedded maps
🔗 - Maps JavaScript API: Dynamic web maps
🔗 - Maps SDK for Android: Maps for Android apps
🔗 - Maps SDK for iOS: Maps for iOS apps
🔗 - Maps Static API: Display static map images
🔗 - Maps SDK for Unity: Unity SDK for games
🔗 - Maps URLs: URL scheme for maps
🔗 - Places API: Rest-based Places features
🔗 - Places Library, Maps JS API: Places features for web
🔗 - Places SDK for Android: Places features for Android
🔗 - Places SDK for iOS: Places feature for iOS
🔗 - Roads API: Convert coordinates to roads
🔗 - Street View Static API: Static street view images
🔗 - Street View Service: Street view for JavaScript
🔗 - Time Zone API: Convert coordinates to timezone
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Workspace Platform
- Admin SDK: Manage G Suite resources
🔗 - AMP for Email: Dynamic interactive email
🔗 - Apps Script: Extend and automate everything
🔗 - Calendar API: Create and manage calendars
🔗 - Classroom API: Provision and manage classrooms
🔗 - Cloud Search: Unified search for enterprise
🔗 - Docs API: Create and edit documents
🔗 - Drive Activity API: Retrieve Google Drive activity
🔗 - Drive API: Read and write files
🔗 - Drive Picker: Drive file selection widget
🔗 - Email Markup: Interactive email using schema.org
🔗 - G Suite Add-ons: Extend G Suite apps
🔗 - G Suite Marketplace: Storefront for integrated applications
🔗 - Gmail API: Enhance Gmail
🔗 - Hangouts Chat Bots: Conversational bots in chat
🔗 - People API: Manage user's Contacts
🔗 - Sheets API: Read and write spreadsheets
🔗 - Slides API: Create and edit presentations
🔗 - Task API: Search, read & update Tasks
🔗 - Vault API: Manage your organization's eDiscovery
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Mobile (Firebase)
- Cloud Firestore: Document store and sync
🔗 - Cloud Functions for Firebase: Event-driven serverless applications
🔗 - Cloud Storage for Firebase: Object storage and serving
🔗 - Crashlytics: Crash reporting and analytics
🔗 - Firebase A/B Testing: Create A/B test experiments
🔗 - Firebase App Distribution: Trusted tester early access
🔗 - Firebase Authentication: Drop-in authentication
🔗 - Firebase Cloud Messaging: Send device notifications
🔗 - Firebase Dynamic Links: Link to app content
🔗 - Firebase Extensions: Pre-packaged development solutions
🔗 - Firebase Hosting: Web hosting with CDN/SSL
🔗 - Firebase In-App Messaging: Send in-app contextual messages
🔗 - Firebase Performance Monitoring: App/web performance monitoring
🔗 - Firebase Predictions: Predict user targeting
🔗 - Firebase Realtime Database: Real-time data synchronization
🔗 - Firebase Remote Config: Remotely configure installed apps
🔗 - Firebase Test Lab: Mobile testing device farm
🔗 - Google Analytics for Firebase: Mobile app analytics
🔗 - ML Kit for Firebase: ML APIs for mobile
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Additional Resources
- Google Cloud Home Page:
🔗 - Google Cloud Blog:
🔗 - Google Cloud Platform Podcast:
🔗 - Kubernetes Podcast from Google:
🔗 - Google Cloud Open Source:
🔗 - GCP Medium Publication:
🔗 - Apigee Blog:
🔗 - Firebase Blog:
🔗 - G Suite Developers Blog:
🔗 - G Suite GitHub:
🔗 - G Suite Twitter:
🔗 - Google Cloud Certifications:
🔗 - Google Cloud System Status:
🔗 - Google Cloud Training:
🔗 - Google Developers Blog:
🔗 - Google Maps Platform Blog:
🔗 - Google Open Source Blog:
🔗 - Google Security Blog:
🔗 - Kaggle Home Page:
🔗 - Kubernetes Blog:
🔗 - Regions and Network Map:
🔗 - DORA - Software & Delivery Research:
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Additional Resources
- Source for this document:
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🔗 - Google Cloud Support Hub:
🔗 - GCP Pricing:
🔗 - GCP Pricing Calculator:
🔗 - Qwiklabs Home Page:
🔗 - Codelabs Home Page:
🔗 - YouTube Channels:
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- Big Data / Data Analytics Product Comparisons:
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🔗 - Networking Product Comparisons:
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GCP Foundational Open Source Projects
- Apache Beam: Batch/streaming data processing
🔗 - Go: High Concurrency Programming Language
🔗 - gRPC: RPC framework
🔗 - gVisor: Secure container runtime
🔗 - Istio: Connect and secure services
🔗 - Knative: Serverless framework for Kubernetes
🔗 - Kubeflow: ML toolkit for Kubernetes
🔗 - Kubernetes: Management of containerized applications
🔗 - OpenCensus: Cloud native observability framework
🔗 - TensorFlow: ML framework
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Platform Comparisons
- Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals:
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📄 - Google Cloud Platform for Data Center Professionals:
📄 - Google Cloud Platform for OpenStack Users:
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