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The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet

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 😏) 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 ^{🔗 📄}
• 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

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

###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)

• Cloud IoT Core: Manage devices, ingest data ^{🔗 📄}

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

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

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Additional Resources

• Source for this document: ^🔗
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• Google Cloud Support Hub: ^🔗
• Google Cloud Pricing: ^🔗
• Google Cloud Pricing Calculator: ^🔗
• Qwiklabs Home Page: ^🔗
• Codelabs Home Page: ^🔗
• YouTube Channels:
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  • Google Developer's: ^🔗
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• Reddit:
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  • /r/AppEngine: ^🔗
  • /r/bigquery: ^🔗
  • /r/dataflow: ^🔗
  • /r/firebase: ^🔗
  • /r/GoogleAppsScript: ^🔗
• 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: ^📄

Language Specific Documentation

• Apps Script: ^📄
• Java: ^📄
• Node.js: ^📄
• Python: ^📄
• Go: ^📄
• Ruby: ^📄
• PHP: ^📄
• .NET/C#: ^📄