- IAM
- Identity and Access Management — the Google Cloud service that controls who (identity) has what access (role) to which resource.
- Service Account
- A non-human account used by applications or VMs to authenticate to Google Cloud APIs, assigned IAM roles like any other identity.
- Project
- The base-level container in Google Cloud that organizes resources, enables billing, and provides the boundary for API enablement and IAM policies.
- Compute Engine
- Google Cloud's Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering for creating and managing virtual machine instances.
- Managed Instance Group (MIG)
- A group of identical Compute Engine VMs managed together, supporting autoscaling, autohealing, and rolling updates from an instance template.
- Instance Template
- A reusable specification defining machine type, boot disk image, and network settings used to create Compute Engine VM instances.
- Preemptible VM / Spot VM
- A low-cost, short-lived Compute Engine instance that Google may terminate at any time, intended for interruption-tolerant workloads.
- App Engine
- A fully managed Platform-as-a-Service for deploying web applications and APIs without provisioning or managing servers.
- Cloud Run
- A managed serverless platform for running stateless containers that automatically scales, including down to zero.
- VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
- A global, software-defined private network in Google Cloud that provides connectivity for resources across regions via regional subnets.
- Subnet
- A regional range of IP addresses within a VPC network where resources such as VM instances are assigned addresses.
- Firewall Rule
- A VPC-level configuration that allows or denies specified network traffic to or from resources based on direction, protocol, port, and source/target criteria.
- Cloud NAT
- A managed service that provides outbound internet connectivity for resources without external IP addresses, without allowing unsolicited inbound connections.
- Cloud Load Balancing
- A fully distributed, managed service for automatically distributing user traffic across multiple backend instances or regions.
- Cloud Storage
- Google Cloud's object storage service for storing unstructured data in buckets, offering multiple storage classes for different access patterns.
- Persistent Disk
- Durable, network-attached block storage for Compute Engine VMs that persists independently of the instance lifecycle.
- Cloud SQL
- A fully managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server engines.
- Cloud Spanner
- A fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database service offering global consistency and high availability.
- Firestore
- A fully managed, serverless NoSQL document database designed for flexible, hierarchical data and real-time synchronization.
- BigQuery
- Google Cloud's serverless, highly scalable enterprise data warehouse for running SQL-based analytics over large datasets.
- Cloud Monitoring
- A service that collects and visualizes metrics, uptime checks, and dashboards, and triggers alerts on Google Cloud resource health.
- Cloud Logging
- A centralized service for ingesting, storing, searching, and exporting log entries from Google Cloud services and applications.
- Cloud Audit Logs
- Logs generated by Google Cloud services that record administrative activity, data access, and system events for auditing purposes.