Introducing Google Cloud Platform

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Customers are required to commit to multi-year contracts

Computing resources available on-demand and self-service

All resources are open-source-based

Resources are available from anywhere over the network

Customers can scale their resource use up and down

Providers always dedicate physical resources to each customer

Customers pay only for what they use or reserve

They are manageable separately from the underlying hardware.

They use less resources than devices in a physical data center.

They are available from anywhere on the Internet.

They are more secure.

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Database as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

The zones within a region are never closer to each other than 160 km.

Customers must choose exactly one zone in each region in which to run their resources.

The zones within a region have fast network connectivity among them.

Each zone corresponds to a single physical data center.

Customers who create and run many virtual machines

Customers who create many virtual machines and leave them running for months

Customers who create too few virtual machines to get discounts

Customers who create virtual machines running commercially licensed operating systems

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