Quick introduction into the current state-of-the-art of cloud computing offer by Google Cloud Platform for those who are familiar with Microsoft Azure Platform.

1. Google Cloud Platform
(for those who know)
Microsoft Windows Azure
Alexander Galkin
Azure Insider

2. Overview
GoogleCloud MicrosoftAzure
App Engine Cloud Services
Web Sites
Cloud Storage Blob Storage
Active Directory
Big Query Azure Hadoop
Cloud Datastore Table Storage (NoSql)
Cloud SQL Azure SQL
Compute Engine Virtual Machines
API

3. Google App Engine ≈ Cloud Service
• PaaS (=managed environment) to host your application
• Supported Languages:
– Java 7 (+JRuby, Scala)
– Python 2.7
– Go
– PHP
• IDEs: Eclipse (supported by SDK), cloud IDEs
• Reach set of available API (Search, Mail, XMMP etc).
• Deep integration with other services

4. Google Compute Engine ≈ VMs
• IaaS (Currently a limited preview)
• VMs with 1-8 cores
• Supported OS: Ubuntu and CentOS
• Storage:
– Ephemeral disk (≈local/temp),
– Persistent disk (≈ Azure Drive/Blob storage + replication),
– Google Cloud Storage (≈ Blob/Documents)
• Networking:
VM traffic Isolation,
Static external IP,
Firewall.
https://cloud.google.com/files/GoogleComputeEngine.pdf

5. Cloud SQL ≈ Azure SQL
• Hosting your MySQL databases in the cloud
• Choice between hosting in the U.S. or the E.U.
• Synchronous or asynchronous geographic replication
• Import or export databases using mysqldump
• Java and Python compatibility
• Command-line tool
• SQL prompt in the Google APIs Console
• Instances up to 100GB storage and 16GB RAM
https://cloud.google.com/files/CloudSQLDatasheet.pdf

6. Available APIs

7. Trivia
• No need for credit card to register for test, only mobile
phone (SMS verification) and Google Account
• Custom Search API allows up to 100 free requests per day.
Many other services and APIs have free quotas per user.
• All services support OAuth2.0 and RESTful JSON APIs for
management. Most of the APIs are configurable through
Console API.

8. More questions? Please, ask!
Alexander Galkin
alexander.galkin@studentpartners.de
Azure Insider
Hamburg, Germany