In this lecture we'll take a look at the big picture of GCP Google is one of the

hyperscale infrastructure providers its footprint spans multiple continents

including Asia Europe and the Americas to put things in perspective let me share
some numbers Google has 20 regions 61 zones 134 network edge locations and customer
base that cuts across 200 plus countries a
region is a collection of multiple data centers you can associate a zone with a
data center and when Google launches a new region it typically has at least two
zones and the idea of a zone provides higher availability reliability and
redundancy to customers when customers launch applications they use more than one
zone making their application highly available network edge locations deliver
static content which will enhance the user experience apart from these regions and
zones Google is soon expected to launch its data centers in new territories
including South Korea Indonesia and a couple of cities within the United States for
the most recent update on the available zones and regions please refer to the
resource link shown in the slide now let's take a look at the building blocks of
GCP like most of the cloud providers Google has an expansive set of offerings at
the bottom of this stack we see compute and compute is the most critical building
block of cloud infrastructure and then we have storage which provides durability
and persistence to applications and of course we have network that enables
communication across multiple applications and services offered by Google on top of
these core foundational building blocks we have additional services databases that
includes both no sequel databases and relational databases followed by a set of
data and analytic services that offers business intelligence and data warehouse in
the
cloud Google is known for its expertise in AI and machine learning so there are
quite a few services that deliver machine learning and artificial intelligence
based services for enterprises there are a set of services that make it possible to
deploy hybrid and multi cloud capabilities API management and even migrating
workloads from on-premises to the cloud we then have security and DevOps that cuts
across the stack because these are not specific to a layer they are important for
all the services and all the applications deployed on GCP so they essentially
covered the entire stack and finally we have management tools which deliver
services through which customers can interact and manage their deployments and
cloud infrastructure services so in the next section in the next lecture we will
understand more about each of these building blocks and additional services.