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 on the day I joined Google 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
- App Engine: Managed app platform
🔗 📄 - Cloud Functions: Event-driven serverless functions
🔗 📄 - Cloud Run
🆕 : Serverless for containerized applications🔗 📄 - Compute Engine: VMs, GPUs, TPUs, Disks
🔗 📄 - Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Managed Kubernetes/containers
🔗 📄 - Anthos
🆕 : Enterprise hybrid/multi-cloud platform🔗 📄
Storage
- Cloud Storage: Object storage and serving
🔗 📄 - Nearline: Archival occasional access storage
🔗 📄 - Coldline: Archival rare access storage
🔗 📄 - Persistent Disk: VM-attached disks
🔗 📄 - Cloud Filestore: Managed NFS server
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Database
- Cloud Bigtable: Petabyte-scale, low-latency, non-relational
🔗 📄 - Cloud Datastore: Horizontally scalable document DB
🔗 📄 - Cloud Firestore: Strongly-consistent serverless document DB
🔗 📄 - Cloud Memorystore: Managed Redis
🔗 📄 - Cloud Spanner: Horizontally scalable relational DB
🔗 📄 - Cloud SQL: Managed MySQL and PostgreSQL
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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 Datalab: Managed Jupyter notebook
🔗 📄 - 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
🔗 📄 - Genomics: Managed genomics platform
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AI/ML
- AI Hub
🆕 : Hosted AI component sharing🔗 📄 - AI Platform: Managed platform for ML
🔗 📄 - AI Platform Data Labeling
🆕 : Data labeling by humans📄 - AI Platform Deep Learning VMs: Preconfigured VMs for deep learning
🔗 📄 - AI Platform Notebooks
🆕 : Managed JupyterLab notebook instances🔗 📄 - AI Platform Training
🆕 : Parallel and distributed training📄 - AI Platform Predictions
🆕 : Autoscaled model serving📄 - 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 AI Building Blocks
🆕 : Hosted AI component repository🔗 📄 - 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 Translation API: Language detection and translation
🔗 📄 - Cloud Video Intelligence API: Scene-level video annotation
🔗 📄 - Cloud Vision API: Image recognition and classification
🔗 📄 - Cloud TPU: Hardware acceleration for ML
🔗 📄 - Dialogflow Enterprise Edition: Create conversational interfaces
🔗 📄 - Document Understanding AI
🆕 : Analyze, classify, search documents🔗 📄 - Recommendations AI
🆕 : Create custom recommendations🔗 📄 - Vision Product Search
🆕 : Visual search for products📄
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
🔗 📄 - Cloud NAT: Network address translation service
📄 - Cloud Router
🆕 : VPC/on-prem network route exchange (BGP)📄 - IPsec 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
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Internet of Things (IoT)
Identity and Security
- Access Transparency: Audit cloud provider access
🔗 📄 - Binary Authorization: Kubernetes deploy-time security
🔗 📄 - Cloud Audit Logs
🆕 : Audit trails for GCP🔗 📄 - Cloud Data Loss Prevention API: Classify and redact sensitive data
🔗 📄 - Cloud HSM: Hardware security module service
🔗 📄 - Cloud IAM: Resource access control
🔗 📄 - Cloud Identity: Manage users, devices & apps
🔗 📄 - Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy: Identity-based app sign in
🔗 📄 - Cloud Key Management Service: Hosted key management service
🔗 📄 - Cloud Resource Manager: Cloud project metadata management
🔗 📄 - Cloud Security Scanner: App engine security scanner
🔗 📄 - Cloud Security Command Center: Asset inventory, discovery, search, management
🔗 📄 - 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🔗 📄 - Security Key Enforcement: Two-step key verification
🔗 - Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs
🔗 📄 - Titan Security Key: Two-factor authentication (2FA) device
🔗 - VPC Service Controls
🆕 : VPC constrain data🔗 📄
Management Tools
- Cloud APIs: APIs for cloud services
🔗 📄 - Cloud Billing: Billing and cost management tools
🔗 📄 - Cloud Billing API: Programmatically manage GCP billing
📄 - Cloud Console: Web-based management console
🔗 - Cloud Deployment Manager: Templated infrastructure deployment
🔗 📄 - Cloud Mobile App: iOS/Android GCP manager app
🔗 - Cloud Shell: Browser-based terminal/CLI
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Debugger: Live production debugging
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Error Reporting: App error reporting
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Logging: Centralized logging
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Monitoring: Infrastructure and application monitoring
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Profiler: CPU and heap profiling
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Transparent SLIs: Monitor GCP services
🔗 📄 - Stackdriver Trace: App performance insights
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Developer Tools
- Cloud SDK: CLI for GCP
🔗 📄 - Cloud Build: Continuous integration/delivery platform
🔗 📄 - Cloud Code
🆕 : Cloud native IDE extensions🔗 📄 - Cloud Source Repositories: Hosted private git repos
🔗 📄 - Cloud Scheduler: Managed cron job service
🔗 📄 - Cloud Tasks
🆕 : Asynchronous task execution🔗 📄 - Cloud Tools for IntelliJ: IntelliJ GCP tools
🔗 - Cloud Tools for PowerShell: PowerShell GCP tools
🔗 - Cloud Tools for Visual Studio: Visual Studio GCP tools
🔗 - Cloud Tools for Eclipse: Eclipse GCP tools
🔗 - Container Registry: Private container registry/storage
🔗 📄 - Gradle App Engine Plugin: Gradle App Engine plugin
🔗 - Maven App Engine Plugin: Maven App Engine plugin
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Migration to GCP
- Cloud Data Transfer: Data migration tools/CLI
🔗 - Google Transfer Appliance: Rentable data transport box
🔗 📄 - Cloud Storage Transfer Service: Cloud to cloud transfers
📄 - BigQuery Data Transfer Service: Bulk import analytics data
🔗 📄 - Migrate from Amazon Redshift
🆕 : Migrate from Redshift to BigQuery🔗 - Migrate from Teradata
🆕 : Migrate from Teradata to BigQuery🔗 - Migrate for Anthos
🆕 : Migrate VMs to GKE containers🔗 📄 - Migrate for Compute Engine: Compute Engine migration tools
🔗 📄 - VM Migration: VM migration tools
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API Platform and Ecosystems
- API Analytics: API metrics
🔗 - API Monetization: Monetize APIs
🔗 - Apigee API Platform: Develop, secure, monitor APIs
🔗 - Apigee Sense: API protection from attacks
🔗 - Apigee Hybrid
🆕 : Manage hybrid/multi-cloud API environments🔗 📄 - Cloud Endpoints: Cloud API gateway
🔗 - Cloud Healthcare API: Healthcare system GCP interoperability
🔗 - Developer Portal: API management portal
🔗 - GCP Marketplace: Partner & open source marketplace
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Google Maps Platform
- Directions API: Get directions between locations
🔗 - Distance Matrix API: Calculate travel times
🔗 - Geocoding API: Convert address to/from coordinates
🔗 - Geolocation API: Derive location without GPS
🔗 - Maps Embed API: Web embedded maps
🔗 - Maps JavaScript API: Dynamic web maps
🔗 - Maps SDK for Android: Maps SDK for Android
🔗 - Maps SDK for iOS: Maps SDK for iOS
🔗 - Maps Static API: Web static maps
🔗 - Maps Unity SDK: Unity SDK for games
🔗 - Maps URLs: URL scheme for maps
🔗 - Places API: Metadata about places (REST)
🔗 - Places Library, Maps JS API: Metadata about places (JavaScript)
🔗 - Places SDK for Android: Places SDK for Android
🔗 - Places SDK for iOS: Places SDK for iOS
🔗 - Roads API: Metadata about roads
🔗 - Street View Static API: Static street view images
🔗 - Street View Service: Interactive street view images
🔗 - Time Zone API: Convert coordinates to timezone
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G Suite Platform
- App Maker: Assistive app building
🔗 - Apps Script: Extend and automate everything
🔗 - Editor Add-ons: Extend Docs, Sheets, Slides
🔗 - Gmail Add-ons: Contextual apps in Gmail
🔗 - Hangouts Chat Bots: Conversational bots in chat
🔗 - Calendar API: Create and manage calendars
🔗 - Classroom API: Provision and manage classrooms
🔗 - Docs API: Create and edit documents
🔗 - Drive API: Read and write files
🔗 - Gmail API: Enhance Gmail
🔗 - Sheets API: Read and write spreadsheets
🔗 - Slides API: Create and edit presentations
🔗 - Drive Picker: Drive file selection widget
🔗 - Cloud Search: Unified search for enterprise
🔗 - Admin SDK: Manage G Suite resources
🔗 - Email Markup: Interactive email using schema.org
🔗 - G Suite Marketplace: Storefront for integrated applications
🔗 - Other G Suite APIs/SDKs: Contacts, Google+, Tasks, Vault...
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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 Indexing: App/Google search integration
🔗 - Firebase Authentication: Drop-in authentication
🔗 - Firebase Cloud Messaging: Send device notifications
🔗 - Firebase Dynamic Links: Link to app content
🔗 - Firebase Hosting: Web hosting with CDN/SSL
🔗 - Firebase In-App Messaging: Send in-app contextual messages
🔗 - Firebase Performance Monitoring: App 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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GCP Foundational Open Source Projects
- Apache Beam: Batch/streaming data processing
🔗 - 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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Additional Resources
- Google Cloud Home Page:
🔗 - Google Cloud Blog:
🔗 - GCP Medium Publication:
🔗 - Apigee Blog:
🔗 - Firebase Blog:
🔗 - G Suite Developers Blog:
🔗 - 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:
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Additional Resources
- Google Cloud Solutions Library:
🔗 - Google Cloud Support Hub:
🔗 - GCP Pricing:
🔗 - GCP Pricing Calculator:
🔗 - Qwiklabs Home Page:
🔗 - Codelabs Home Page:
🔗 - YouTube Channels:
- Podcasts:
- Reddit:
Platform Comparisons
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