Chapter 1
Overview of Google Cloud Platform
THIS CHAPTER COVERS THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVE OF THE GOOGLE ASSOCIATE CLOUD ENGINEER CERTIFICATION EXAM:
1.0 Setting up a Cloud Solution Environment
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a public cloud service that offers some of the same technologies used by Google to deliver its own products. This chapter describes the most important components of GCP and discusses how it differs from on-premise data center–based computing.