GCP 🟠

Google Cloud Platform covering compute, storage, networking, and GCP-native services.

Sections

Core

• Identity & IAM — GCP IAM, service accounts, workload identity federation

Compute

• Compute Engine — VMs, preemptible instances, sole-tenant nodes
• GKE — Google Kubernetes Engine
• Cloud Run — Serverless containers

Networking

• Networking — VPC, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing, CDN

Data & AI

• Data — BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore
• ML — Vertex AI, AutoML, TensorFlow on GCP

GCP vs AWS

Concept	GCP	AWS
Virtual network	VPC	VPC
Object storage	Cloud Storage	S3
Managed K8s	GKE	EKS
Serverless	Cloud Run / Functions	Lambda
CDN	Cloud CDN	CloudFront
IAM	GCP IAM	IAM
Serverless containers	Cloud Run	ECS Fargate

Related

• AWS — AWS equivalents and comparison
• Azure — Microsoft Azure
• GCP Security Hub