Google Cloud Features

Compute Engine: VMs with hundreds of machine types, per-second billing, sole-tenant nodes, Spot VMs (up to 91% discount).

GKE: Autopilot (per-pod, no node management) and Standard. Best-in-class release channels, fleet management, Config Sync. Google invented Kubernetes.

Cloud Run: Fully managed serverless containers. Pay-per-request (per 100ms). Instant scale-to-zero.

Cloud Functions: Event-driven serverless. 2M free invocations/month.

App Engine: Traditional PaaS (Standard and Flexible environments).

BigQuery: Serverless data warehouse. Petabyte-scale analytics with SQL. Automatic scaling, BI Engine, Omni for multi-cloud queries. Best-in-class.

Vertex AI: End-to-end ML platform. Model Garden (200+ models from Google and partners), Generative AI Studio, Agent Builder, AutoML, custom training.

Gemini: AI assistant across Google Cloud -- code assist, operations, security, databases. Gemini for Workspace.

Data Analytics: Dataflow (stream/batch), Pub/Sub (messaging), Dataproc (Spark/Hadoop), Looker (BI), Managed Kafka.

Cloud Storage: Object storage with unified API, 11+ storage classes, object versioning, retention policies.

Cloud SQL: Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server. Automated backups, replication, maintenance.

Spanner: Globally distributed relational database. 99.999% availability, strong consistency across regions.

AlloyDB: PostgreSQL-compatible, 4x faster for transactional workloads.

Firestore: Serverless NoSQL document DB. Mobile/web SDKs.

Bigtable: Wide-column NoSQL for large-scale, low-latency workloads.

Memorystore: Managed Redis and Memcached.