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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform is a IaaS/PaaS by Google, allowing you to run applications on the same datacenters as its services with utmost priority for security.

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Server locationsUS East, US West, US Central, Asia, Europe

ISOsUbuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Container-optimized OS, CoreOS, Custom

Cloud StorageYes

Block StorageYes

Custom ISOYes

VirtualizationKVM

NVMe DiskYes (Optional)

SLA99.89%

Pros

Pro
Free tier

GCP gives your 365 days of free trial and 300 US$ credit including a Always Free if you upgrade.

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Runs on the same infrastructure with Google's Services

Google's datacenters runs your favorite video streaming services and even Google itself. Discord also relies on GCP to handle its workloads.

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First-class Kubernetes support

Kubernetes is a project from Google's Borg. GCP is the first Kubernetes-Certified infrastructure.

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Cons

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Expensive

GCP might be cheaper than AWS but it is more expensive than Azure. The main reason for this might be because of the extensive investment done for datacenters being efficient and green and secure.

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