priyankavergadia/google-cloud-4-words

The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet

Every product, feature and service in the Google Cloud family described in <=4 words (with liberal use of hyphens and slashes :smirk:) 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 preview, 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.

Many of these products have a visual Google Cloud Sketchnote to provide you a one pager visual overview of what each of these products are and how you can use them.

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All Products

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Compute

• Cloud Functions: Event-driven serverless functions ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• App Engine: Managed app platform ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Run: Serverless for containerized applications ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Managed Kubernetes/containers ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Compute Engine: VMs, GPUs, TPUs, Disks ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Bare Metal Solution: Hardware for specialized workloads ^:link:
• Preemptible VMs: Short-lived compute instances ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Sole-tenant Nodes: Dedicated physical servers ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• VMware Engine: VMware as a service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Storage

• Cloud Filestore: Managed NFS server ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Storage: Multi-class multi-region object storage^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Persistent Disk: Block storage for VMs ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Local SSD: VM locally attached SSDs ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Database

• Cloud Bigtable: Petabyte-scale, low-latency, non-relational ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Firestore: Serverless NoSQL document database ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Memorystore: Managed Redis and Memcached ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Spanner: Horizontally scalable relational database ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud SQL: Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Database Migration Service: Migrate to Cloud SQL ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud SQL Insights: SQL Inspector ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Data Analytics

• BigQuery: Data warehouse and analytics ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• BigQuery BI Engine: In-memory analytics engine ^{:page_facing_up:}
• BigQuery ML: BigQuery model training/serving ^{:page_facing_up:}
• BigQuery GIS: BigQuery geospatial functions/support ^{:page_facing_up:}
• BigQuery Data Transfer Service: Automated data ingestion service ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Connected Sheets: Spreadsheet interface for (big)data ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Composer: Managed workflow orchestration service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Data Fusion: Graphically manage data pipelines ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Dataflow: Stream/batch data processing ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Dataprep by Trifacta: Visual data wrangling ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Dataproc: Managed Spark and Hadoop ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Datastream: Change data capture/replication service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Pub/Sub: Global real-time messaging ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Data Catalog: Metadata management service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Google Data Studio: Collaborative data exploration/dashboarding ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Looker: Enterprise BI and analytics ^:link:
• Public Datasets: Hosted data in BigQuery^{:page_facing_up:}

Hybrid and multi-cloud

• Anthos: Enterprise hybrid/multi-cloud platform ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Anthos clusters: Hybrid/on-premises GKE ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Anthos Config Management:Policy and security automation ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Anthos Service Mesh: Managed service mesh (Istio) ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Run for Anthos: Serverless development for Anthos ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Google Cloud Marketplace for Anthos: Pre-configured containerized apps ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Migrate for Anthos and GKE: Migrate VMs to GKE ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Google Cloud's operations suite: Monitoring, logging, troubleshooting ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Traffic Director: Service mesh traffic management ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Apigee API Management: API management, development, security ^:link:

AI and ML

• Vertex AI: Managed platform for ML ^:link:
• AutoML: Custom low-code models ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Data Labeling: Data labeling by humans ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Deep Learning VM Images: Preconfigured VMs for deep learning ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Workbench:Jupyter-based environment for Data Science ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Deep Learning Containers: Preconfigured containers for deep learning ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Matching Engine: Vector similarity searches ^{:link::page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Pipelines: Hosted ML workflows^:link:
• Vertex AI Predictions: Autoscaled model serving ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Training: Distributed AI training ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Edge Manager: Deploy monitor edge inferences ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Vertex Explainable AI: Understand ML model predictions ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Feature Store: Managed ML feature repository ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex ML Metadata: Artifact, lineage, and execution tracking ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Model Monitoring: Monitor models for skew/drift ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Tensorboard: Managed TensorBoard for ML-experiment Visualization ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vertex AI Vizier: black-box hyperparameter tuning ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Speech-To-Text: Convert audio to text ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Talent Solutions: Job search with ML ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Text-To-Speech: Convert text to audio ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud TPU: Hardware acceleration for ML ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Translation: Language detection and translation ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Video Intelligence API: Scene-level video annotation ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Vision: Image recognition and classification ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Contact Center AI: AI in your contact center^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Dialogflow: Create conversational interfaces ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Document AI: Analyze, classify, search documents ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Recommendations AI: Create custom recommendations ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Vision Product Search: Visual search for products ^{:page_facing_up:}

Networking

• Carrier Peering: Peer through a carrier ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Direct Peering: Peer with Google Cloud ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Dedicated Interconnect: Dedicated private network connection ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Partner Interconnect: Connect on-prem network to VPC ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Google Cloud Armor: DDoS protection and WAF ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud CDN: Content delivery network ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud DNS: Programmable DNS serving ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Load Balancing: Multi-region load distribution/balancing ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud NAT: Network address translation service ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Router: VPC/on-prem network route exchange (BGP) ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Cloud VPN: Virtual private network connection^{:page_facing_up:}
• Network Service Tiers: Price versus performance tiering ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Network Telemetry: Network telemetry service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Traffic Director: Service mesh traffic management ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Anthos Service Mesh: Service-aware network management ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Virtual Private Cloud: Software defined networking ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Domains: Register, transfer, manager domains ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• VPC Service Controls: Security perimeters for API-based services ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Network Intelligence Center: Network monitoring and topology ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Service Directory: Centrally publish/discover/connect services ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Private Service Connect: Privately connect services across VPCs ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Network Connectivity Center: Connect VPC & On-prem ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Packet Mirroring: Monitor/analyze instance traffic ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Cloud IDS: Detects network based threats ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Identity and Security

• Access Transparency: Audit cloud provider access ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Assured Workloads: Workload compliance controls ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Binary Authorization: Kubernetes deploy-time security ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Certificate Authority Service: Managed private CAs ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Asset Inventory: All assets, one place ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Audit Logs: Audit trails for Google Cloud ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Classify and redact sensitive data ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud HSM: Hardware security module service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud External Key Manager (EKM): External keys you control ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud IAM: Resource access control ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Identity: Manage users, devices & apps ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy: Identity-based app access ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Key Management Service: Hosted key management service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Resource Manager: Cloud project metadata management ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Security Command Center: Security management and data risk platform ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Web Security Scanner: App engine security scanner ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Confidential Computing: Encrypt data in-use ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Access Context Manager: End-user attribute-based access control ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Event Threat Detection: Scans for suspicious activity ^:link:
• Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory: Managed Microsoft Active Directory ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Secret Manager: Store and manage secrets ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Security Key Enforcement: Two-step key verification ^:link:
• Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Titan Security Key: Two-factor authentication (2FA) device ^:link:
• VPC Service Controls: VPC data constraints ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Chronicle: Find threats from security telemetry ^:link:
• VirusTotal: Research/hunt for malware ^:link:
• Risk Manager: Evaluate organization’s security posture ^:link:
• reCAPTCHA Enterprise: Protection against bot/spam/abuse ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• BeyondCorp Enterprise: Zero trust secure access ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Access Context Manager: Fine-grained, attribute based access-control ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Web Security Scanner: Identifies web-app security vulnerabilities ^{:page_facing_up:}

Operations & Monitoring

• Cloud Debugger: Live production debugging ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Error Reporting: App error reporting ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Logging: Centralized logging ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Monitoring: Infrastructure and application monitoring ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Profiler: CPU and heap profiling ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Trace: App latency insights ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

DevOps CI/CD

• Cloud Build: Continuous integration/delivery platform ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Deploy: Deployment pipeline for GKE ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Artifact Registry: Universal package manager ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Source Repositories: Hosted private git repos ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Container Registry: Private container registry/storage ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Application Integration

• Eventarc: Event-driven Cloud Run services ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Scheduler: Managed cron job service ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Tasks: Asynchronous task execution ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Workflows: HTTP services orchestration ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Pub/Sub: Global real-time messaging ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

API Platform and Ecosystems

• API Analytics: API metrics ^:link:
• API Monetization: Monetize APIs ^:link:
• Apigee API Platform: Develop, secure, monitor APIs ^:link:
• API Gateway: Fully managed API Gateway ^:link:
• Apigee Hybrid: Manage hybrid/multi-cloud API environments ^{:link::page_facing_up:}
• Apigee Sense: API protection from attacks ^:link:
• Cloud Endpoints: Cloud API gateway ^:link:
• Developer Portal: API management portal ^:link:
• Marketplace: Partner & open source marketplace ^:link:
• AppSheet: No-code App creation ^:link:

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Cloud IoT Core: Manage devices, ingest data ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Gaming

• Google Cloud Game Servers: Orchestrate Agones clusters ^:link:

Healthcare

• Cloud Healthcare API: Healthcare system Google Cloud interoperability ^:link:
• Apigee Healthcare APIx: Healthcare system Google Cloud interoperability ^:link:
• Healthcare Natural Language AI: Real-time insights from media-text ^:link:
• Cloud Life Sciences*: Manage, process, transform biomedical-data ^{:link::page_facing_up:}

Retail

• Vision Product Search: Visual search for products ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Recommendations AI: Create custom recommendations ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Visual Inspection AI: Train/deploy models to detect defects ^:link:

Management Tools

• VM Manager: Manage OS VM Fleets ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Cloud APIs: APIs for cloud services ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Billing API: Programmatically manage Google Cloud billing ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Billing: Billing and cost management tools ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Console: Web-based management console ^:link:
• Cloud Deployment Manager: Templated infrastructure deployment ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Mobile App: iOS/Android Google Cloud manager app ^:link:
• Private Catalog: Internal Solutions Catalog ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Carbon Footprint: Report and reduce carbon emissions ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Developer Tools

• Cloud Code for IntelliJ: IntelliJ Google Cloud tools ^:link:
• Cloud Code for VS Code: VS Code Google Cloud tools ^:link:
• Cloud Code: Cloud native IDE extensions ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Tools for Eclipse: Eclipse Google Cloud tools ^:link:
• Cloud Tools for Visual Studio: Visual Studio Google Cloud tools ^:link:
• App Engine Plugins: Gradle/Maven App Engine plugin ^:link:
• Cloud SDK: CLI for Google Cloud ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Shell: Browser-based terminal/CLI ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}

Migration to Google Cloud

• BigQuery Data Transfer Service: Bulk import analytics data ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Cloud Data Transfer: Data migration tools/CLI ^:link:
• Google Transfer Appliance: Rentable data transport box ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Storage Transfer Service: Online/on-premises data transfer ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Migrate for Anthos and GKE: Migrate VMs to GKE ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Migrate for Compute Engine: Compute Engine migration tools ^{:link: :page_facing_up:}
• Migrate from Amazon Redshift: Migrate from Redshift to BigQuery ^:link:
• Migrate from Teradata: Migrate from Teradata to BigQuery ^:link:
• Cloud Foundation Toolkit: Infrastructure as Code templates ^:link:
• KF: Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes ^:link:

Google Maps Platform

• Directions API: Get directions between locations ^:link:
• Distance Matrix API: Multi-origin/destination travel times ^:link:
• Geocoding API: Convert address to/from coordinates ^:link:
• Geolocation API: Derive location without GPS ^:link:
• Maps Embed API: Display iframe embedded maps ^:link:
• Maps JavaScript API: Dynamic web maps ^:link:
• Maps SDK for Android: Maps for Android apps ^:link:
• Maps SDK for iOS: Maps for iOS apps ^:link:
• Maps Static API: Display static map images ^:link:
• Maps SDK for Unity: Unity SDK for games ^:link:
• Maps URLs: URL scheme for maps ^:link:
• Places API: Rest-based Places features ^:link:
• Places Library, Maps JS API: Places features for web ^:link:
• Places SDK for Android: Places features for Android ^:link:
• Places SDK for iOS: Places feature for iOS ^:link:
• Roads API: Convert coordinates to roads ^:link:
• Street View Static API: Static street view images ^:link:
• Street View Service: Street view for JavaScript ^:link:
• Time Zone API: Convert coordinates to timezone ^:link:

Workspace Platform

• Admin SDK: Manage Google Workspace resources ^:link:
• AMP for Email: Dynamic interactive email ^:link:
• Apps Script: Extend and automate everything ^:link:
• Calendar API: Create and manage calendars ^:link:
• Classroom API: Provision and manage classrooms ^:link:
• Cloud Search: Unified search for enterprise ^:link:
• Docs API: Create and edit documents ^:link:
• Drive Activity API: Retrieve Google Drive activity ^:link:
• Drive API: Read and write files ^:link:
• Drive Picker: Drive file selection widget ^:link:
• Email Markup: Interactive email using schema.org ^:link:
• Google Workspace Add-ons: Extend Google Workspace apps ^:link:
• Google Workspace Marketplace: Storefront for integrated applications ^:link:
• Gmail API: Enhance Gmail ^:link:
• Google Chats API: Conversational bots in chat ^:link:
• People API: Manage user's Contacts ^:link:
• Sheets API: Read and write spreadsheets ^:link:
• Slides API: Create and edit presentations ^:link:
• Task API: Search, read & update Tasks ^:link:
• Vault API: Manage your organization's eDiscovery ^:link:

Mobile (Firebase)

• Cloud Firestore: Document store and sync ^:link:
• Cloud Functions for Firebase: Event-driven serverless applications ^:link:
• Cloud Storage for Firebase: Object storage and serving ^:link:
• Crashlytics: Crash reporting and analytics ^:link:
• Firebase A/B Testing: Create A/B test experiments ^:link:
• Firebase App Distribution: Trusted tester early access ^:link:
• Firebase Authentication: Drop-in authentication ^:link:
• Firebase Cloud Messaging: Send device notifications ^:link:
• Firebase Dynamic Links: Link to app content ^:link:
• Firebase Extensions: Pre-packaged development solutions ^:link:
• Firebase Hosting: Web hosting with CDN/SSL ^:link:
• Firebase In-App Messaging: Send in-app contextual messages ^:link:
• Firebase Performance Monitoring: App/web performance monitoring ^:link:
• Firebase Predictions: Predict user targeting ^:link:
• Firebase Realtime Database: Real-time data synchronization ^:link:
• Firebase Remote Config: Remotely configure installed apps ^:link:
• Firebase Test Lab: Mobile testing device farm ^:link:
• Google Analytics for Firebase: Mobile app analytics ^:link:
• ML Kit for Firebase: ML APIs for mobile ^:link:

Additional Resources

• Google Cloud Home Page: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Blog: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Platform Podcast: [^:link:](https://Google Cloudpodcast.com/)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Reader: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Open Source: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Medium Publication: ^:link:
• Apigee Blog: ^:link:
• Firebase Blog: ^:link:
• Google Workspace Developers Blog: ^:link:
• Google Workspace GitHub: ^:link:
• Google Workspace Twitter: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Certifications: ^:link:
• Google Cloud System Status: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Training: ^:link:
• Google Developers Blog: ^:link:
• Google Maps Platform Blog: ^:link:
• Google Open Source Blog: ^:link:
• Google Security Blog: ^:link:
• Kaggle Home Page: ^:link:
• Kubernetes Blog: ^:link:
• Regions and Network Map: ^:link:
• DORA - Software & Delivery Research: ^:link:
• Cloud Security Podcast: ^:link:
• Google Cloud Sketchnote: [^:link:](https://goo.gle/Google Cloudsketchnote)

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  • /r/GoogleAppsScript: ^:link:
• Big Data / Data Analytics Product Comparisons: ^:link:
• Compute Product Comparisons: ^:link:
• Database Product Comparisons: ^:link:
• Networking Product Comparisons: ^:link:
• Storage Product Comparisons: ^:link:

Google Cloud Foundational Open Source Projects

• Apache Beam: Batch/streaming data processing ^:link:
• Go: High Concurrency Programming Language ^:link:
• gRPC: RPC framework ^:link:
• gVisor: Secure container runtime ^:link:
• Istio: Connect and secure services ^:link:
• Knative: Serverless framework for Kubernetes ^:link:
• Kubeflow: ML toolkit for Kubernetes ^:link:
• Kubernetes: Management of containerized applications ^:link:
• OpenCensus: Cloud native observability framework ^:link:
• TensorFlow: ML framework ^:link:

Platform Comparisons

• Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals: ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Google Cloud Platform for Azure Professionals: ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Google Cloud Platform for Data Center Professionals: ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Google Cloud Platform for OpenStack Users: ^{:page_facing_up:}

Language Specific Documentation

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• Java: ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Node.js: ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Python: ^{:page_facing_up:}
• Go: ^{:page_facing_up:}
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• .NET/C#: ^{:page_facing_up:}