GCP(125 terms)
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AlloyDB Database ☆ A PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for high performance.
Anthos Other Services ☆ A Google Cloud platform for managing Kubernetes environments centrally, including on-premises and other clouds.
Anthos Service Mesh Other Services ☆ A fully managed service mesh from GCP that manages communication between microservices.
Apigee Other Services ☆ An API management service for publishing, managing, and analyzing APIs.
App Engine Compute ☆ A PaaS service for running applications without managing infrastructure.
Application Default Credentials Identity Management ☆ A mechanism that automatically finds the appropriate credentials for the current environment, without embedding credentials directly in code.
Archive Storage Storage ☆ The lowest-cost storage class, meant for data accessed extremely infrequently.
Artifact Registry Other Services ☆ A service for storing and managing artifacts such as container images.
Assured Workloads Security ☆ A Google Cloud feature that enforces data residency and access controls to meet compliance requirements for regulated industries.
Audit Logs Identity Management ☆ Logs that record who did what, and when.
Backup and DR Service Storage ☆ A service for centrally managing backup and disaster recovery for GCP workloads as well as on-premises environments.
Batch Compute ☆ A service that runs large batch-processing jobs, automatically provisioning the VMs needed.
BigQuery Database ☆ A data warehouse for fast SQL analysis of large-scale data.
BigQuery ML AI/ML ☆ A BigQuery feature for training and running machine learning models using only SQL syntax.
Bigtable Database ☆ A high-performance, column-oriented NoSQL database for large-scale data.
Binary Authorization Security ☆ A mechanism that ensures only approved container images can be deployed.
Budget Alerts Operations Management ☆ A feature that notifies you when usage charges are about to exceed a set amount.
Certificate Manager Security ☆ A service for centrally managing the creation, renewal, and deployment of SSL/TLS certificates.
Chronicle Security ☆ A Google-provided SIEM for quickly searching and analyzing large volumes of log data.
Cloud Armor Security ☆ A service that protects applications from DDoS and web attacks.
Cloud Asset Inventory Operations Management ☆ A service that inventories resources across an organization and tracks changes to them.
Cloud Billing Operations Management ☆ A feature for managing usage charges and setting budget alerts.
Cloud Build Other Services ☆ A CI/CD service that automatically runs builds and tests.
Cloud CDN Networking ☆ A content delivery service that uses Google's global network.
Cloud Composer Other Services ☆ A workflow-management service based on Apache Airflow.
Cloud Data Fusion Other Services ☆ A Google Cloud data integration service for building ETL/ELT pipelines without code.
Cloud Deploy Other Services ☆ A continuous-delivery service that manages deployment pipelines to targets such as GKE.
Cloud Deployment Manager Operations Management ☆ An infrastructure-as-code service that provisions resources from templates.
Cloud DLP Security ☆ A Google Cloud data-protection service that detects, classifies, and masks sensitive data.
Cloud DNS Networking ☆ GCP's managed DNS service.
Cloud Domains Networking ☆ A service for registering and managing domains directly from the Google Cloud console.
Cloud Endpoints Other Services ☆ A service for managing and monitoring APIs.
Cloud Functions Compute ☆ GCP's serverless function-execution service.
Cloud HSM Security ☆ A service that provides access to a hardware security module (HSM) in the cloud.
Cloud IAM Identity Management ☆ The mechanism for managing access permissions to GCP resources.
Cloud Identity Identity Management ☆ A service that provides identity-management infrastructure for users and devices.
Cloud IDS Security ☆ A Google Cloud intrusion detection service that monitors network traffic to detect known threats.
Cloud Interconnect Networking ☆ A service for connecting directly to GCP over a dedicated line.
Cloud KMS Security ☆ A service for generating and managing encryption keys.
Cloud Load Balancing Networking ☆ A load-balancing service that can receive globally distributed load through a single IP.
Cloud Logging Operations Management ☆ A service for collecting, storing, and searching various logs.
Cloud Monitoring Operations Management ☆ A service for collecting and monitoring metrics from GCP resources.
Cloud NAT Networking ☆ A mechanism that lets VMs without an external IP reach the internet.
Cloud Profiler Operations Management ☆ A GCP service that continuously analyzes an application's CPU usage and memory consumption at the function level.
Cloud Router Networking ☆ A Google Cloud routing service that dynamically exchanges routes using BGP.
Cloud Run Compute ☆ A service for running containers serverlessly.
Cloud Run jobs Compute ☆ A Cloud Run feature for running one-off batch processing, as opposed to always-on web request handling.
Cloud Scheduler Operations Management ☆ A managed service that runs recurring jobs, like cron.
Cloud Shell Other Services ☆ A temporary virtual machine environment, accessible through the browser, with the gcloud CLI pre-installed.
Cloud Source Repositories Other Services ☆ A private Git repository service hosted on GCP.
Cloud Spanner Database ☆ An RDB service that combines global distribution with strong consistency.
Cloud SQL Database ☆ A managed service providing major RDBs such as MySQL.
Cloud Storage Storage ☆ GCP's object storage service.
Cloud Tasks Other Services ☆ A service that queues asynchronous tasks and ensures their execution.
Cloud TPU AI/ML ☆ A custom chip designed by Google specifically for AI training and inference.
Cloud Trace Operations Management ☆ A tracing service for analyzing request latency.
Cloud VPN Networking ☆ A service that connects an on-premises environment to GCP with encryption.
Committed Use Discounts Compute ☆ A GCP discount program that offers reduced pricing in exchange for committing to a certain level of usage over a set period.
Compute Engine Compute ☆ GCP's virtual machine service.
Confidential Computing Compute ☆ A Google Cloud security capability that keeps data encrypted in memory even while it's being processed.
Container-Optimized OS Compute ☆ A lightweight OS image provided by Google, built solely for running containers.
Custom Image (Compute Engine) Compute ☆ A custom VM image for Compute Engine that captures a specific OS and middleware configuration.
Custom Machine Type Compute ☆ A VM configuration approach that lets you freely specify CPU and memory.
Dataflow Other Services ☆ A data-processing service that handles batch and streaming processing under one model.
Dataform Other Services ☆ A Google Cloud service for managing SQL-based data transformation pipelines in BigQuery.
Dataplex Other Services ☆ A data-governance service for centrally discovering and managing data spread across multiple sources.
Dataproc Other Services ☆ A service for running Hadoop and Spark in a managed way.
Datastore Database ☆ A document-oriented NoSQL database, the predecessor to Firestore.
Document AI AI/ML ☆ A service that automatically extracts text and data from documents.
Error Reporting Operations Management ☆ A service that aggregates and analyzes application errors.
Eventarc Other Services ☆ An event-routing service that triggers services based on events inside and outside GCP.
Filestore Storage ☆ Managed file storage that can be shared across multiple VMs.
Firestore Database ☆ A document-oriented NoSQL database with strong real-time sync capabilities.
Firewall Rule Networking ☆ A rule that controls allowing or denying traffic on a per-VPC basis.
GCP Workflows Other Services ☆ A serverless orchestration service that executes a series of service calls in a defined order.
Gemini Enterprise AI/ML ☆ Formerly Vertex AI, an integrated platform for building and operating AI agents.
GKE Compute ☆ GCP's managed Kubernetes service.
GKE Autopilot Compute ☆ A GKE operating mode that hands node management over to Google.
Google Cloud Architecture Framework Operations Management ☆ A set of best practices for reviewing a GCP design from multiple angles, including reliability, security, and cost optimization.
Google Cloud Marketplace Other Services ☆ A catalog for finding and deploying third-party software and services with one click.
Google Cloud VMware Engine Compute ☆ A service that lets you run an on-premises VMware environment as-is on GCP.
Google Distributed Cloud Compute ☆ Formerly Anthos, a platform for centrally managing Kubernetes environments across on-premises and other clouds.
Identity-Aware Proxy Identity Management ☆ A mechanism that lets you securely access internal apps via identity authentication, without a VPN.
Instance Template Compute ☆ A blueprint for creating virtual machines with an identical configuration.
Label Operations Management ☆ A named tag attached to a resource, used for organization and cost reporting.
Lifecycle Rule Storage ☆ A rule that automatically changes an object's class or deletes it after a set period.
Looker Other Services ☆ A BI platform for visualizing and analyzing data.
Managed Instance Group Compute ☆ A mechanism that automatically scales and repairs a group of identically configured VMs.
Memorystore Database ☆ A caching service that provides managed Redis and Memcached.
Multi-Region Storage Storage ☆ A storage approach that replicates data across multiple geographic regions.
Natural Language AI AI/ML ☆ A natural-language-processing service that analyzes text structure and sentiment.
Nearline/Coldline Storage ☆ Low-cost storage classes for infrequent access and long-term retention.
Network Connectivity Center Networking ☆ A GCP networking service that centrally manages hub-based connectivity across on-premises sites and multiple VPCs.
Network Intelligence Center Networking ☆ A suite of Google Cloud tools for visualizing network topology, monitoring performance, and diagnosing connectivity in one place.
Organization Policy Identity Management ☆ A mechanism for defining constraint rules applied across an organization.
Persistent Disk Storage ☆ A persistent disk attached to a Compute Engine instance.
Preemptible VM Compute ☆ A VM purchase option that's cheap but can be forcibly terminated.
Private Google Access Networking ☆ A setting that allows access to Google APIs without an external IP.
Private Service Connect Networking ☆ A mechanism for connecting to services privately, without going over the internet.
Project Networking ☆ The basic unit in GCP for organizing resources and managing billing.
Pub/Sub Other Services ☆ GCP's messaging service for exchanging messages asynchronously.
reCAPTCHA Enterprise Security ☆ Google's enterprise service for detecting and blocking fraudulent access and bot activity on a website.
Recommender Operations Management ☆ A service that suggests optimizations from a cost and security perspective.
Resource Hierarchy Identity Management ☆ The structure that organizes resources into a hierarchy of organization, folder, and project.
Secret Manager Security ☆ A GCP service that encrypts and centrally manages sensitive information such as API keys and passwords.
Security Command Center Security ☆ A service that provides a central view of security risks and threats.
Service Account Identity Management ☆ An identity that applications or VMs use to operate GCP.
Service Account Impersonation Identity Management ☆ A mechanism where a user or service account temporarily borrows the permissions of another service account to perform an operation.
Service Account Key Identity Management ☆ Key material used to authenticate as a service account.
Shared VPC Networking ☆ A mechanism where multiple projects share a single VPC network.
Shielded VM Compute ☆ A hardened virtual machine that, among other things, detects tampering during the boot process.
Sole-Tenant Node Compute ☆ A VM arrangement where you get exclusive use of a specific physical server.
Speech-to-Text AI/ML ☆ A service that converts speech to text.
Storage Class Storage ☆ A storage tier you choose based on access frequency and cost.
Text-to-Speech AI/ML ☆ A service that converts text into natural-sounding speech.
Traffic Director Networking ☆ A control plane for managing traffic in a service-mesh environment.
Transfer Service Storage ☆ A service for migrating data into Cloud Storage from other clouds or on-premises.
Translation AI AI/ML ☆ A service that automatically translates text.
Vertex AI AI/ML ☆ Google Cloud's machine learning platform, covering everything from training a model to deploying it.
Vision AI AI/ML ☆ An AI service that recognizes objects and text in images.
VPC Networking ☆ A virtual, private network space built on GCP.
VPC Flow Logs Networking ☆ A Google Cloud logging feature that captures records of traffic flowing through a VPC.
VPC Service Controls Identity Management ☆ A mechanism that restricts data exfiltration between services by setting up a boundary.
Workload Identity Identity Management ☆ A mechanism for securely granting GCP permissions to workloads such as those on Kubernetes.
Workload Identity Federation Identity Management ☆ A mechanism that lets external systems outside of GCP (other clouds, CI/CD platforms, etc.) access GCP resources without using a service account key.
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