☁️ GCP
- Google cloud, data/ML strong
- Kubernetes born here
- Clean UI + pricing
- Free: $300 credit 90 days + always-free tier
🆚 AWS → GCP Naming
EC2 → Compute Engine S3 → Cloud Storage RDS → Cloud SQL Lambda → Cloud Functions / Cloud Run ECS → Cloud Run (preferred) EKS → GKE Route53 → Cloud DNS CloudFront → Cloud CDN IAM → IAM (similar)
🖥️ Compute Engine
VM similar to EC2 Sustained use discount automatic Live migration (no reboot on maintenance) Preemptible VMs — 80% off (like Spot) gcloud compute instances create vm1 \ --machine-type=e2-micro \ --image-family=ubuntu-2204-lts
🐳 Cloud Run 🔥
GCP-এর signature service — container → HTTPS URL।
Serverless container, scale 0 → 1000 Pay per request + time Per-request CPU allocation Fastest container deploy anywhere gcloud run deploy myapp \ --image gcr.io/project/myapp \ --region=asia-south1 \ --allow-unauthenticated
📦 Cloud Storage
Standard / Nearline / Coldline / Archive Lifecycle rules similar to S3 Uniform bucket-level access Signed URL upload
🗄️ Cloud SQL
Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server HA with 99.95% SLA Read replica, automated backup Point-in-time recovery
🔥 Firebase (GCP family)
- Realtime Database + Firestore
- Authentication (Google, FB, Email, Phone)
- Hosting (static + dynamic)
- Cloud Functions (JS)
- FCM push notifications
- Perfect for mobile/web app backend
☸️ GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
Managed K8s Autopilot mode — fully managed (no nodes) Standard mode — manage nodes Best K8s experience of major clouds
📊 BigQuery 🔥
Serverless data warehouse Petabyte scale queries in seconds SQL interface $5 per TB scanned Free: 1 TB query/month, 10 GB storage
🤖 AI/ML Services
- Vertex AI — unified ML
- AutoML
- Vision/Speech/Translate APIs
- Gemini API — GCP's LLM
💰 Free Tier (always)
Compute Engine: 1 e2-micro (us regions only) Cloud Storage: 5 GB Cloud Functions: 2M invocations Cloud Run: 2M req + 360k GB-sec BigQuery: 1 TB query, 10 GB storage Firestore: 1 GB, 50k read/day
🎓 মূল কথা ⭐
GCP = data/ML first। Cloud Run = best container deploy experience। Firebase = mobile/web backend super fast। BigQuery = analytics magic। Free tier generous।