Service Description

Google Cloud is a collection of public cloud computing service offerring by Google. Platform includes different range of hosted services for computing, storage and application development that runs on Google hardwares. GCP services can be accessed by software developers, cloud administrators and other enterprise IT professionals over the public internet or through a dedicated network connection. GCP provides an array of tools designed to assist with data and workload migrations. Examples include Application Migration to the cloud, BigQuery Data Transfer Service for scheduling and moving data into BigQuery, Database Migration Service to enable easy migrations to Cloud SQL, Migrate for Anthos to help migrate VMs into containers on GKE, Migrate for Compute Engine to bring VMs and physical servers to Compute Engine, and Storage Transfer Service to handle data transfers to Cloud Storage. The Google Cloud suite of services is always evolving, and Google periodically introduces, changes or discontinues services based on user demand or competitive pressures. Google's main competitors in the public cloud computing market include AWS and Microsoft Azure.