google-cloud-4-words
Every product, feature and service in the Google Cloud family described in 4 words (with liberal use of hyphens and slashes 😏) by the Google Developer Relations Team
Here are the downloadable versions as well:
Text descriptions with links are below
Suggestions for better descriptions? Missing products? Pull requests are welcome on README.md (this file).
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
🔗-Product page 📄-DocumentationCompute
- Cloud Functions: Event-driven serverless functions 🔗 📄
- App Engine: Managed app platform 🔗 📄
- Cloud Run: Serverless for containerized applications 🔗 📄
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Managed Kubernetes/containers 🔗 📄
- Compute Engine: VMs, GPUs, TPUs, Disks 🔗 📄
- Bare Metal Solution: Hardware for specialized workloads 🔗
- Preemptible VMs: Short-lived compute instances 🔗 📄
- Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs 🔗 📄
- Sole-tenant Nodes: Dedicated physical servers 🔗 📄
- VMware Engine: VMware as a service 🔗 📄
Storage
- Cloud Filestore: Managed NFS server 🔗 📄
- Cloud Storage: Multi-class multi-region object storage🔗 📄
- Persistent Disk: Block storage for VMs 🔗 📄
- Local SSD: VM locally attached SSDs 🔗 📄
Database
- Cloud Bigtable: Petabyte-scale, low-latency, non-relational 🔗 📄
- Cloud Firestore: Serverless NoSQL document database 🔗 📄
- Cloud Memorystore: Managed Redis and Memcached 🔗 📄
- Cloud Spanner: Horizontally scalable relational database 🔗 📄
- Cloud SQL: Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server 🔗 📄
- Database Migration Service: Migrate to Cloud SQL 🔗 📄
- Cloud SQL Insights: SQL Inspector 🔗 📄
Data Analytics
- BigQuery: Data warehouse and analytics 🔗 📄
- BigQuery BI Engine: In-memory analytics engine 📄
- BigQuery ML: BigQuery model training/serving 📄
- BigQuery GIS: BigQuery geospatial functions/support 📄
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service: Automated data ingestion service 📄
- Connected Sheets: Spreadsheet interface for (big)data 📄
- Cloud Composer: Managed workflow orchestration service 🔗 📄
- Cloud Data Fusion: Graphically manage data pipelines 🔗 📄
- Dataflow: Stream/batch data processing 🔗 📄
- Dataprep by Trifacta: Visual data wrangling 🔗 📄
- Dataproc: Managed Spark and Hadoop 🔗 📄
- Datastream: Change data capture/replication service 🔗 📄
- Pub/Sub: Global real-time messaging 🔗 📄
- Data Catalog: Metadata management service 🔗 📄
- Google Data Studio: Collaborative data exploration/dashboarding 🔗 📄
- Looker: Enterprise BI and analytics 🔗
- Public Datasets: Hosted data in BigQuery📄
Hybrid and multi-cloud
- Anthos: Enterprise hybrid/multi-cloud platform 🔗 📄
- Anthos clusters: Hybrid/on-premises GKE 🔗 📄
- Anthos Config Management:Policy and security automation 🔗 📄
- Anthos Service Mesh: Managed service mesh (Istio) 🔗 📄
- Cloud Run for Anthos: Serverless development for Anthos 🔗 📄
- Google Cloud Marketplace for Anthos: Pre-configured containerized apps 🔗 📄
- Migrate for Anthos and GKE: Migrate VMs to GKE 🔗 📄
- Google Cloud's operations suite: Monitoring, logging, troubleshooting 🔗 📄
- Traffic Director: Service mesh traffic management 🔗 📄
- Apigee API Management: API management, development, security 🔗
AI and ML
- Vertex AI: Managed platform for ML 🔗
- AutoML: Custom low-code models 📄
- Vertex AI Data Labeling: Data labeling by humans 📄
- Deep Learning VM Images: Preconfigured VMs for deep learning 🔗 📄
- Vertex AI Workbench:Jupyter-based environment for Data Science 🔗 📄
- Deep Learning Containers: Preconfigured containers for deep learning 🔗 📄
- Vertex AI Matching Engine: Vector similarity searches 🔗📄
- Vertex AI Pipelines: Hosted ML workflows🔗
- Vertex AI Predictions: Autoscaled model serving 📄
- Vertex AI Training: Distributed AI training 📄
- Vertex AI Edge Manager: Deploy monitor edge inferences 📄
- Vertex Explainable AI: Understand ML model predictions 🔗 📄
- Vertex AI Feature Store: Managed ML feature repository 🔗 📄
- Vertex ML Metadata: Artifact, lineage, and execution tracking 🔗 📄
- Vertex AI Model Monitoring: Monitor models for skew/drift 🔗 📄
- Vertex AI Tensorboard: Managed TensorBoard for ML-experiment Visualization 🔗 📄
- Vertex AI Vizier: black-box hyperparameter tuning 🔗 📄
- Speech-To-Text: Convert audio to text 🔗 📄
- Talent Solutions: Job search with ML 🔗 📄
- Text-To-Speech: Convert text to audio 🔗 📄
- Cloud TPU: Hardware acceleration for ML 🔗 📄
- Cloud Translation: Language detection and translation 🔗 📄
- Cloud Video Intelligence API: Scene-level video annotation 🔗 📄
- Cloud Vision: Image recognition and classification 🔗 📄
- Contact Center AI: AI in your contact center🔗 📄
- Dialogflow: Create conversational interfaces 🔗 📄
- Document AI: Analyze, classify, search documents 🔗 📄
- Recommendations AI: Create custom recommendations 🔗 📄
- Vision Product Search: Visual search for products 📄
Networking
- Carrier Peering: Peer through a carrier 📄
- Direct Peering: Peer with Google Cloud 📄
- Dedicated Interconnect: Dedicated private network connection 📄
- Partner Interconnect: Connect on-prem network to VPC 📄
- Google Cloud Armor: DDoS protection and WAF 🔗 📄
- Cloud CDN: Content delivery network 🔗 📄
- Cloud DNS: Programmable DNS serving 🔗 📄
- Cloud Load Balancing: Multi-region load distribution/balancing 🔗 📄
- Cloud NAT: Network address translation service 📄
- Cloud Router: VPC/on-prem network route exchange (BGP) 📄
- Cloud VPN: Virtual private network connection📄
- Network Service Tiers: Price versus performance tiering 🔗 📄
- Network Telemetry: Network telemetry service 🔗 📄
- Traffic Director: Service mesh traffic management 🔗 📄
- Anthos Service Mesh: Service-aware network management 🔗 📄
- Virtual Private Cloud: Software defined networking 🔗 📄
- Cloud Domains: Register, transfer, manager domains 🔗 📄
- VPC Service Controls: Security perimeters for API-based services 🔗 📄
- Network Intelligence Center: Network monitoring and topology 🔗 📄
- Service Directory: Centrally publish/discover/connect services 🔗 📄
- Private Service Connect: Privately connect services across VPCs 🔗 📄
- Network Connectivity Center: Connect VPC & On-prem 🔗 📄
- Packet Mirroring: Monitor/analyze instance traffic 📄
- Cloud IDS: Detects network based threats 🔗 📄
Identity and Security
- Access Transparency: Audit cloud provider access 🔗 📄
- Assured Workloads: Workload compliance controls 🔗 📄
- Binary Authorization: Kubernetes deploy-time security 🔗 📄
- Certificate Authority Service: Managed private CAs 🔗 📄
- Cloud Asset Inventory: All assets, one place 🔗 📄
- Cloud Audit Logs: Audit trails for Google Cloud 🔗 📄
- Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Classify and redact sensitive data 🔗 📄
- Cloud HSM: Hardware security module service 🔗 📄
- Cloud External Key Manager (EKM): External keys you control 🔗 📄
- Cloud IAM: Resource access control 🔗 📄
- Cloud Identity: Manage users, devices & apps 🔗 📄
- Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy: Identity-based app access 🔗 📄
- Cloud Key Management Service: Hosted key management service 🔗 📄
- Resource Manager: Cloud project metadata management 🔗 📄
- Security Command Center: Security management and data risk platform 🔗 📄
- Web Security Scanner: App engine security scanner 🔗 📄
- Confidential Computing: Encrypt data in-use 🔗 📄
- Access Context Manager: End-user attribute-based access control 🔗 📄
- Event Threat Detection: Scans for suspicious activity 🔗
- Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory: Managed Microsoft Active Directory 🔗 📄
- Secret Manager: Store and manage secrets 🔗 📄
- Security Key Enforcement: Two-step key verification 🔗
- Shielded VMs: Hardened VMs 🔗 📄
- Titan Security Key: Two-factor authentication (2FA) device 🔗
- VPC Service Controls: VPC data constraints 🔗 📄
- Chronicle: Find threats from security telemetry 🔗
- VirusTotal: Research/hunt for malware 🔗
- Risk Manager: Evaluate organization’s security posture 🔗
- reCAPTCHA Enterprise: Protection against bot/spam/abuse 🔗 📄
- BeyondCorp Enterprise: Zero trust secure access 🔗 📄
- Access Context Manager: Fine-grained, attribute based access-control 📄
- Web Security Scanner: Identifies web-app security vulnerabilities 📄
Operations & Monitoring
DevOps CI/CD
- Cloud Build: Continuous integration/delivery platform 🔗 📄
- Cloud Deploy: Deployment pipeline for GKE 🔗 📄
- Artifact Registry: Universal package manager 🔗 📄
- Cloud Source Repositories: Hosted private git repos 🔗 📄
- Container Registry: Private container registry/storage 🔗 📄
Application Integration
- Eventarc: Event-driven Cloud Run services 🔗 📄
- Cloud Scheduler: Managed cron job service 🔗 📄
- Cloud Tasks: Asynchronous task execution 🔗 📄
- Workflows: HTTP services orchestration 🔗 📄
- Pub/Sub: Global real-time messaging 🔗 📄
API Platform and Ecosystems
- API Analytics: API metrics 🔗
- API Monetization: Monetize APIs 🔗
- Apigee API Platform: Develop, secure, monitor APIs 🔗
- API Gateway: Fully managed API Gateway 🔗
- Apigee Hybrid: Manage hybrid/multi-cloud API environments 🔗📄
- Apigee Sense: API protection from attacks 🔗
- Cloud Endpoints: Cloud API gateway 🔗
- Developer Portal: API management portal 🔗
- Marketplace: Partner & open source marketplace 🔗
- AppSheet: No-code App creation 🔗
Internet of Things (IoT)
Gaming
- Google Cloud Game Servers: Orchestrate Agones clusters 🔗
Healthcare
- Cloud Healthcare API: Healthcare system Google Cloud interoperability 🔗
- Apigee Healthcare APIx: Healthcare system Google Cloud interoperability 🔗
- Healthcare Natural Language AI: Real-time insights from media-text 🔗
- Cloud Life Sciences*: Manage, process, transform biomedical-data 🔗📄
Retail
- Vision Product Search: Visual search for products 📄
- Recommendations AI: Create custom recommendations 🔗 📄
- Visual Inspection AI: Train/deploy models to detect defects 🔗
Management Tools
- VM Manager: Manage OS VM Fleets 📄
- Cloud APIs: APIs for cloud services 🔗 📄
- Cloud Billing API: Programmatically manage Google Cloud billing 📄
- Cloud Billing: Billing and cost management tools 🔗 📄
- Cloud Console: Web-based management console 🔗
- Cloud Deployment Manager: Templated infrastructure deployment 🔗 📄
- Cloud Mobile App: iOS/Android Google Cloud manager app 🔗
- Private Catalog: Internal Solutions Catalog 🔗 📄
- Carbon Footprint: Report and reduce carbon emissions 🔗 📄
Developer Tools
- Cloud Code for IntelliJ: IntelliJ Google Cloud tools 🔗
- Cloud Code for VS Code: VS Code Google Cloud tools 🔗
- Cloud Code: Cloud native IDE extensions 🔗 📄
- Cloud Tools for Eclipse: Eclipse Google Cloud tools 🔗
- Cloud Tools for Visual Studio: Visual Studio Google Cloud tools 🔗
- App Engine Plugins: Gradle/Maven App Engine plugin 🔗
- Cloud SDK: CLI for Google Cloud 🔗 📄
- Cloud Shell: Browser-based terminal/CLI 🔗 📄
Migration to Google Cloud
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service: Bulk import analytics data 🔗 📄
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Cloud Data Transfer: Data migration tools/CLI 🔗
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Storage Transfer Service: Online/on-premises data transfer 📄
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Migrate for Compute Engine: Compute Engine migration tools 🔗 📄
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Migrate from Amazon Redshift: Migrate from Redshift to BigQuery 🔗
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Migrate from Teradata: Migrate from Teradata to BigQuery 🔗
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Cloud Foundation Toolkit: Infrastructure as Code templates 🔗
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KF: Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes 🔗
Google Maps Platform
- Directions API: Get directions between locations 🔗
- Distance Matrix API: Multi-origin/destination travel times 🔗
- Geocoding API: Convert address to/from coordinates 🔗
- Geolocation API: Derive location without GPS 🔗
- Maps Embed API: Display iframe embedded maps 🔗
- Maps JavaScript API: Dynamic web maps 🔗
- Maps SDK for Android: Maps for Android apps 🔗
- Maps SDK for iOS: Maps for iOS apps 🔗
- Maps Static API: Display static map images 🔗
- Maps SDK for Unity: Unity SDK for games 🔗
- Maps URLs: URL scheme for maps 🔗
- Places API: Rest-based Places features 🔗
- Places Library, Maps JS API: Places features for web 🔗
- Places SDK for Android: Places features for Android 🔗
- Places SDK for iOS: Places feature for iOS 🔗
- Roads API: Convert coordinates to roads 🔗
- Street View Static API: Static street view images 🔗
- Street View Service: Street view for JavaScript 🔗
- Time Zone API: Convert coordinates to timezone 🔗
Workspace Platform
- Admin SDK: Manage Google Workspace resources 🔗
- AMP for Email: Dynamic interactive email 🔗
- Apps Script: Extend and automate everything 🔗
- Calendar API: Create and manage calendars 🔗
- Classroom API: Provision and manage classrooms 🔗
- Cloud Search: Unified search for enterprise 🔗
- Docs API: Create and edit documents 🔗
- Drive Activity API: Retrieve Google Drive activity 🔗
- Drive API: Read and write files 🔗
- Drive Picker: Drive file selection widget 🔗
- Email Markup: Interactive email using schema.org 🔗
- Google Workspace Add-ons: Extend Google Workspace apps 🔗
- Google Workspace Marketplace: Storefront for integrated applications 🔗
- Gmail API: Enhance Gmail 🔗
- Google Chats API: Conversational bots in chat 🔗
- People API: Manage user's Contacts 🔗
- Sheets API: Read and write spreadsheets 🔗
- Slides API: Create and edit presentations 🔗
- Task API: Search, read & update Tasks 🔗
- Vault API: Manage your organization's eDiscovery 🔗
Mobile (Firebase)
- Cloud Firestore: Document store and sync 🔗
- Cloud Functions for Firebase: Event-driven serverless applications 🔗
- Cloud Storage for Firebase: Object storage and serving 🔗
- Crashlytics: Crash reporting and analytics 🔗
- Firebase A/B Testing: Create A/B test experiments 🔗
- Firebase App Distribution: Trusted tester early access 🔗
- Firebase Authentication: Drop-in authentication 🔗
- Firebase Cloud Messaging: Send device notifications 🔗
- Firebase Dynamic Links: Link to app content 🔗
- Firebase Extensions: Pre-packaged development solutions 🔗
- Firebase Hosting: Web hosting with CDN/SSL 🔗
- Firebase In-App Messaging: Send in-app contextual messages 🔗
- Firebase Performance Monitoring: App/web performance monitoring 🔗
- Firebase Predictions: Predict user targeting 🔗
- Firebase Realtime Database: Real-time data synchronization 🔗
- Firebase Remote Config: Remotely configure installed apps 🔗
- Firebase Test Lab: Mobile testing device farm 🔗
- Google Analytics for Firebase: Mobile app analytics 🔗
- ML Kit for Firebase: ML APIs for mobile 🔗
Additional Resources
- Google Cloud Home Page: 🔗
- Google Cloud Blog: 🔗
- Google Cloud Platform Podcast: [🔗](https://Google Cloudpodcast.com/)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google: 🔗
- Google Cloud Reader: 🔗
- Google Cloud Open Source: 🔗
- Google Cloud Medium Publication: 🔗
- Apigee Blog: 🔗
- Firebase Blog: 🔗
- Google Workspace Developers Blog: 🔗
- Google Workspace GitHub: 🔗
- Google Workspace Twitter: 🔗
- Google Cloud Certifications: 🔗
- Google Cloud System Status: 🔗
- Google Cloud Training: 🔗
- Google Developers Blog: 🔗
- Google Maps Platform Blog: 🔗
- Google Open Source Blog: 🔗
- Google Security Blog: 🔗
- Kaggle Home Page: 🔗
- Kubernetes Blog: 🔗
- Regions and Network Map: 🔗
- DORA - Software & Delivery Research: 🔗
- Cloud Security Podcast: 🔗
- Google Cloud Sketchnote: [🔗](https://goo.gle/Google Cloudsketchnote)
Everything below is not included in the PDFs/PNGs due to space limitations
Additional Resources
- Source for this document: 🔗
- Google Cloud Solutions Library: 🔗
- Google Workspace Solutions Gallery: 🔗
- Google Cloud Support Hub: 🔗
- Google Cloud Pricing: 🔗
- Google Cloud Pricing Calculator: 🔗
- Qwiklabs Home Page: 🔗
- Codelabs Home Page: 🔗
- YouTube Channels:
- Reddit:
- Big Data / Data Analytics Product Comparisons: 🔗
- Compute Product Comparisons: 🔗
- Database Product Comparisons: 🔗
- Networking Product Comparisons: 🔗
- Storage Product Comparisons: 🔗
Google Cloud Foundational Open Source Projects
- Apache Beam: Batch/streaming data processing 🔗
- Go: High Concurrency Programming Language 🔗
- gRPC: RPC framework 🔗
- gVisor: Secure container runtime 🔗
- Istio: Connect and secure services 🔗
- Knative: Serverless framework for Kubernetes 🔗
- Kubeflow: ML toolkit for Kubernetes 🔗
- Kubernetes: Management of containerized applications 🔗
- OpenCensus: Cloud native observability framework 🔗
- TensorFlow: ML framework 🔗
Platform Comparisons
- Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals: 📄
- Google Cloud Platform for Azure Professionals: 📄
- Google Cloud Platform for Data Center Professionals: 📄
- Google Cloud Platform for OpenStack Users: 📄