A service account is a special Google Cloud identity used by applications and VMs rather than people, authenticating with keys or workload identity. ACE covers creating service accounts, granting them roles, and managing their keys and scopes.
A project is the base-level organizing entity in Google Cloud that groups resources, billing, and permissions.
The resource hierarchy is the structure — organization, folders, projects, and resources — through which Google Cloud applies IAM policies and organization policies.
Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the service that controls who (members) can do what (roles) on which Google Cloud resources.
A service account is a special Google Cloud identity used by applications and VMs rather than people, authenticating with keys or workload identity.
The gcloud CLI is the command-line tool, part of the Google Cloud SDK, for creating and managing Google Cloud resources.
Compute Engine is Google Cloud's infrastructure-as-a-service for running virtual machines.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes service for deploying and operating containerized applications.
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that runs stateless containers in response to requests or events, scaling to zero when idle.
Cloud Storage is Google Cloud's object storage service, organizing data into buckets with storage classes (Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive) and lifecycle rules.
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network is a global, software-defined network that connects Google Cloud resources using regional subnets, firewall rules, and routes.
Cloud Load Balancing is a managed service that distributes traffic across Google Cloud resources, with global and regional options for HTTP(S), TCP, and UDP.
BigQuery is Google Cloud's serverless, highly scalable data warehouse for running SQL analytics over large datasets.
Cloud Monitoring is part of the Google Cloud operations suite, collecting metrics, dashboards, uptime checks, and alerting policies.
Cloud Logging is the operations-suite service that stores, searches, and analyzes log data from Google Cloud resources and applications.