Google Cloud Platform

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Google Cloud Platform is a commercial cloud computing platform that provides computing, storage, networking, database, security, management, application, data-processing, and related technology services through Google-operated infrastructure.

Google Cloud Platform commonly uses the abbreviation GCP. Google also uses Google Cloud as the broader product and service brand.

Within Crucible, Google Cloud Platform can serve as a Deployment Platform on which Crucible creates and manages Infrastructure Environments.

Google Cloud Platform provides proprietary service interfaces, resource models, identity mechanisms, configuration formats, and operational services. A Crucible Provider Implementation can isolate those provider-specific dependencies from provider-independent Crucible Descriptions and Infrastructure Baselines.

*commercial cloud computing platform provided by Google LLC*

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The abbreviation GCP refers to Google Cloud Platform.

Google Cloud Platform identifies a named Cloud Provider and Deployment Platform. The term does not identify a specific Google Cloud service, organization, folder, project, region, zone, or deployed Infrastructure Environment.

A Crucible Provider Implementation translates a provider-independent Infrastructure Baseline into Google Cloud resources, including virtual private clouds, compute instances, storage resources, service accounts, and security controls.