Standing on the shoulders of giants

Google Cloud Platform is the product of decades-long experience running some of the largest and most successful web services in history. The infrastructure Google offers in GCP is the same infrastructure Google uses internally, meaning customers directly benefit from the wealth of hard-won knowledge and ingenuity Google has amassed through running many of their well-known large-scale services. Extreme reliability and security are established norms at Google, and these qualities are deeply ingrained into GCP's underlying infrastructure.

Google also embeds and applies this knowledge and experience to their managed services. Google App Engine is the direct product of Google's expertise managing web-scale services and is designed to make scalability a non-issue. With easy-to-use service integrations and managed autoscaling, engineers can develop against simple interfaces to quickly create web services that scale to any load. Likewise, Kubernetes (and by extension Google Kubernetes Engine) is the result of Google's experience, successfully orchestrating massive numbers of web services via the internal data center scheduling and orchestration platform known as Borg. BigQuery is the result of externalizing Google's own analytics platform, called Dremel. Google Bigtable is built on top of Google's powerful internal lock system, Chubby. Cloud Datastore builds on Bigtable clusters to provide easy-to-use managed document stores. Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Bigtable are all built on top of Google's large-scale clustered filesystem Colossus (originally Google File System (GFS)). The point is, when you use GCP, you are the direct beneficiary of Google's success.