Google Cloud Platform , offered by Google , is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube . Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage , data analytics and machine learning . . Registration requires a credit card or bank account details. Popular products A sample of products are listed below, this is not an exhaustive list. Google Compute Engine – IaaS providing virtual machines. Google App Engine – PaaS for application hosting. Bigtable – IaaS massively scalable NoSQL database. BigQuery – SaaS large scale database analytics. Google Cloud Functions – As of August 2017 is in beta testing. FaaS providing serverless ...