The Google Cloud Console

The Google Cloud Platform offers a range of channels for managing and interacting with project resources and services, including the Google Cloud Console, command-line tools, mobile applications, IDE plugins, web APIs, and libraries for many popular programming languages. The Google Cloud Console is the primary interface for GCP, offering a one-stop shop for all of your cloud operations. Combined with the power of the Google Cloud Shell, there is very little you cannot do from the Cloud Console.

With a simple and straightforward UI, the Cloud Console also offers an approachable way to acquaint oneself with the various features and tools of Google Cloud as shown in the following screenshot:

The Google Cloud Console dashboard offers a high-level view of the state of your project, as well as important updates about GCP.