Introducing Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform

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 Agenda

1 Why Google Cloud Platform?

2 Google’s Network Infrastructure

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For the past 15 years, Google has
been building the most powerful
infrastructure on the planet.

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Why Google Cloud Platform?

Google Cloud Platform enables developers to build,

test and deploy applications on Google’s highly-
scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure. Choose
from computing, storage and application services
for your web, mobile and backend solutions.

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Google Innovation - Driving Technology Forward

MapReduce Dremel Spanner More!

Compute
GFS Big Table Colossus Engine

2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014+

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“Google’s commitment to using renewable
energy as much as possible has set the
bar for the industry."
Developing our infrastructure while
Greenpeace respecting our ecosystem

• Pioneering data center efficiency

• Financed over 250 Megawatts of new

wind power

• First data centers to receive ISO 14001

certification

• 100% carbon neutral

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Affordable On-Demand Prices &
a Commitment to Moore’s Law

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Cloud Pricing Is Not Following Moore’s Law
● Public cloud prices have
Public Cloud Prices
fallen 6-8% annually
Hardware Cost
● Hardware prices have
fallen 20-30% annually

● Google introduced
measures to optimize
pricing:
○ Sub-Hour Billing
○ Sustained-Use
2006 2014
Discounts

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Sustained-use Discounts Based on Moore's Law

Sustained-use discounts automatically reward users who run VMs for over 25% of any calendar month
Try the online pricing calculator to help estimate your costs

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 Agenda

1 Why Google Cloud Platform?

2 Google’s Network Infrastructure

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Google's Network Infrastructure

Data Centers Backbone Points of Presence Edge Caching

Google operates an Google has built a global, 70+ edge points of Google runs an edge
extensive deployment of meshed backbone presence in 33 countries caching platform on top
high-efficiency backend network to interconnect interconnected via of their network
data centers used for their data centers and to Google's backbone infrastructure. The
computation and deliver traffic to their network caching platform also has
backend storage Edge points of presence elements within ISP and
(POPs) access networks

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A Network That Spans the Globe

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Global Data Centers

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Edge Points of Presence

More than 70 edge locations in

33 countries creating the
broadest reaching network of
any Cloud provider

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 ‘europe-west1-a’
Zones and Regions [deprecated]

‘europe-west1-b’
europe-west1

Regions region
‘europe-west1-c’
Are collections of zones
‘europe-west1-d’

‘us-central1-a’

Zones ‘us-central1-b’
An isolated location within a region us-central1
region
‘us-central1-c’

‘us-central1-f’

future zone a
‘asia-east1-a’
future region future zone b asia-east1
region ‘asia-east1-b’
future zone c
‘asia-east1-c’

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Resources
● Data Centers
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/

● Google’s Approach to IT Security

https://cloud.google.com/files/Google-CommonSecurity-WhitePaper-v1.4.pdf

● Why Google Cloud Platform?

https://cloud.google.com/why-google/

● Pricing philosophy
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/philosophy/

● Pricing
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/

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