From the course: Google Cloud Security for Beginners: Tools and Services

Overview of the Google Cloud Platform - Google Cloud Tutorial

From the course: Google Cloud Security for Beginners: Tools and Services

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Overview of the Google Cloud Platform

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- [Instructor] The Google Cloud Platform offers a variety of infrastructure, platform and software services that fall under nine categories; compute, data transfer, the internet of things, management tools, big data, cloud AI, identity and security, networking, and storage and databases. For the purposes of this course, we will be focusing on the main pillars of identity and access management, compute, networking, storage, and security. Within these main services are resources that consist of the virtual physical hardware and software available for consumers to use such as virtual machines or cloud storage buckets. Google offers worldwide capabilities allowing you to deploy resources in specific zones across multiple zones in a region or across multiple regions. A zone can be defined as a single deployment area for resources that are within a region. Zones are considered a single point of failure within a region and examples of zones are US-East1, Europe-West4 or Asia-NorthEast1. Regions are defined as large independent geographic areas that consist of multiple zones. Deploying resources across multiple zones provide fault tolerance so that if one zone goes down, your entire environment won't go with it. An example of a region includes Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Finland, and Montreal. Some Google Cloud services have the ability to be redundant and distributed across multiple regions, meaning you can have your service expand the entirety of Asia, Europe or the United States. Not all services can be expanded outside of a zone or region, so it is important to understand the specific resources available within each location option so you can architect an environment that best fits your needs. There are three ways you can interact with services and resources within Google Cloud. That is through the online Google Cloud Console, the Command line interface or through Client libraries.

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