Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.

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Hyperscaler selling compute and data services on Google's infrastructure.

Classification

Categories: Infrastructure as a Service
Operating system: Self-managed
Metal: Owns the hardware 2
Audience: Startups, Enterprises

Tech stack

Runtimes: Anything
Shell: Root shell

Pricing

Pricing model: Metered usage
Billed: Monthly3
Paid: In arrears, for usage already run up3

Owns: Firebase, Google Cloud Run
Runs here: Cloudways, CrateDB, FlyWP, PlanetScale, SiteGround, SpinupWP

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Google Cloud Platform is the third of the big three hyperscalers, after AWS and Azure. It runs on the same infrastructure Google uses for Search, Gmail and YouTube, and its catalogue reflects Google’s own centre of gravity: data and analytics through BigQuery, Kubernetes through GKE, machine learning throughout.

Application workloads have several entry points. App Engine takes code and manages the runtime, Cloud Run runs containers, and Compute Engine sells plain virtual machines; databases are separate services again, Cloud SQL among them. Each is picked, configured, connected and billed on its own, so the choice between them is an architectural decision taken before the first deployment. Regions span six continents, and everything is metered by usage rather than sold as a plan, which is why no entry price is recorded here.

Identity

Ownership: Subsidiary
Status: Active
Wikidata: Q17054505 1

Regions and law

Regions: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa 2
Headquarters: United States

Other features

Green Web directory: 595

Automation

CLI: Official
API: Public
Infrastructure as code: Terraform

Sources

2026-09-09: Wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17054505
2026-07-31: Metal, Regions
cloud.google.com/about/locations
2026-08-02: Billed, Paid
docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/billing-cycle

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