The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet
April 22, 2023 · View on GitHub
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.
All Products
:link:-Product page :page_facing_up:-Documentation
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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Additional Resources
- Source for this document: :link:
- Google Cloud Solutions Library: :link:
- Google Workspace Solutions Gallery: :link:
- Google Cloud Support Hub: :link:
- Google Cloud Pricing: :link:
- Google Cloud Pricing Calculator: :link:
- Qwiklabs Home Page: :link:
- Codelabs Home Page: :link:
- YouTube Channels:
- Reddit:
- 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
- Apps Script: :page_facing_up:
- Java: :page_facing_up:
- Node.js: :page_facing_up:
- Python: :page_facing_up:
- Go: :page_facing_up:
- Ruby: :page_facing_up:
- PHP: :page_facing_up:
- .NET/C#: :page_facing_up:
