Why do you need Google Cloud ?
Google Cloud Platform (GPC) is, as it’s clear from its name, a cloud platform, or an “Infrastructure as a Service” (Iaas). This means it offers a suite of tools, services, and apps that businesses can use to enhance productivity and workflow. Those include cloud storage and backup, database management, developer tools, IoT, analytics, machine learning, and more. Android developers that frequent this site may be familiar with Firebase. It is a mobile application development platform that provides various useful tools developers can use when building their apps.
While the majority of an app’s code will run natively on the user’s device, most will also need to defer to the cloud for a variety of different functions. For example, you may need to let a user log-in using their Google account. You might want to store their user data on the cloud too (so that they can still access it after changing devices), or you might want to use voice recognition/computer vision that would be slow to process on-device. To that end, a developer will outsource these features to an online service like Google’s Firebase. Thus, a Google Cloud Project works in precisely the same way, but with broader applications.
Companies can use Google Cloud services in just the same way to power their apps, websites, in-house software, and tools. Google provides hardware (servers) and software in an always-connected manner that businesses can rely on. A company can leverage GCP when storing user data, integrating machine learning into their services, adding additional security measures, or backing up databases.
