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Cloud computing is a way of using information technology (IT) that has these five equally important traits.
First, customers get computing resources that are on-demand and self-service.
Second, customers get access to those resources over the internet, from anywhere they have a connection.
Third, the cloud provider has a big pool of those resources and allocates them to users out of that pool. That allows the provider to buy in bulk and pass the savings on to the customers.
Fourth, the resources are elastic–which means they’re flexible, so customers can be.
Finally, customers pay only for what they use, or reserve as they go.

Google Cloud Network

Google has invested billions of dollars over many years to build it. This network is designed to give customers the highest possible throughput and lowest possible latencies for their applications by leveraging more than 100 content caching nodes worldwide. These are locations where high-demand content is cached for quicker access, allowing applications to respond to user requests from the location that will provide the quickest response time.
Google Cloud’s infrastructure is based in five major geographic locations:

North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Australia.

Latency: measures the time a packet of information takes to travel from its source to its destination.

Google Cloud currently supports 103 zones in 34 regions. (up-to-date at cloud.google.com/about/locations)

Altogether, existing data centers use roughly 2% of the world’s electricity.

Google's data centers were the first to achieve ISO 14001 certification, which is a standard that maps out a framework for an organization to enhance its environmental performance by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.

In our founding decade, Google became the first major company to be carbon neuapitral.
In our second decade, we were the first company to achieve 100% renewable energy.
By 2030, we aim to be the first major company to operate completely carbon-free.

Google Infrastructure Security

Hardware security layer
- Hardware design and provenance
- Secure boot stack
- Premises Security
Service deployment layer
- Encryption of inter-service communication
User identity later
Storage services layer
- Encryption at rest
Internet communication layer
- Google Front End (GFE)
- Denial of Service (DoS) protection
Operational Security layer
- Intrusion detection
- Reducing insider risk
- Employee Universal Second Factor (U2F) use
- Software development

Pricing & Billing

Google was the first major cloud provider to deliver per-second billing.
Automatically applied sustained-use discounts are automatic discounts you get for running a virtual machine instance for a significant portion of the billing month. Specifically, when you run an instance for more than 25% of a month, Compute Engine automatically gives you a discount for every incremental minute you use for that instance.

https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator

Quotas

Applied at the project level

Rate quota (reset after a specific time)
Allocation quota (governs the number of resources)

Project identity

Project ID
- Globally unique
- Mutable during creation
- Immutable after creation
Project name
- Need not be unique
- Chosen by user
- Mutable
Project number
- Globally unique
- Assigned by Google Cloud
- Immutable

Resource Manager Tool

Designed to programmatically help to manage projects

Gather a list of projects
Create new projects
Update existing projects
Delete projects
Recover previously deleted projects
Access through RPC API and REST API

Interacting with Google Cloud

Google Cloud console
Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell (gcloud, kubectl, gsutil, bq)
APIs
Cloud Mobile App

Cloud Endpoints

Distributed API management system
Provides an API console, hosting, logging, monitoring, and other features
Use with any APIs that support the OpenAPI specification
Supports applications running in App Engine, GKE, and Compute Engine
Clients include Android, iOS, and Javascript
Protect and monitor your public APIs
Integrates with Identity Platform
Control who has access to your API

API Gateway

Backend implementations can vary for a single service provider
Provide secure access to your backend services through a well-defined REST API
Clients consume your REST APIs to implement standalone apps

Apigee API Management

Design, secure, publish, analyze, monitor, monetize, and scale APIs anywhere
Manage Complete API life cycle
Provides AI-powered API monitoring (Get actionable insights)
Create Developer Portals
- Allow developers to easily explore the APIs, get API keys
Expose ML models as APIs
Specific focus on business problems like rate limiting quotas and analytics
Many Apigee Edge users provide a software service to other companies
Backend services for Apigee Edge don't need to be in Google Cloud

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Support

Support options
- Technical Support
  - When something isn't working right
- Billing Support
  - Help with your bill and purchasing reserved instance
- Role-based Support
  - More predictable rates and a flexible configuration
- Enterprise Support
  - Working directly with TAM (Technical Account Management) Contact
Support level
- Basic
  - Free
  - Least Amount of Options
- Standard
  - Unlimited access to support
  - 4-hour response time to priority 2 cases
  - Receive support during local business hours, Monday - Friday
- Enhanced
  - Guaranteed 1 hour response to priority 1 cases
  - Ability to escalate cases for additional attention
- Premium
  - Guaranteed 15 minute response time to priority 1 cases
  - A number of value add services