Capital expenditure
Capital expenditure (CapEx) is up-front spending on fixed assets such as servers, contrasted in the cloud with operating expenditure (OpEx) that is paid as you consume. CDL covers this shift as a benefit of cloud.
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Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing resources such as compute, storage, and networking over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Total cost of ownership
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the complete cost of a solution including direct and indirect costs over its lifetime, used to compare on-premises with cloud.
Capital expenditure
Capital expenditure (CapEx) is up-front spending on fixed assets such as servers, contrasted in the cloud with operating expenditure (OpEx) that is paid as you consume.
Shared responsibility model
The shared responsibility model is a framework that divides security and operational duties between Google Cloud and the customer depending on the service type.
BigQuery
BigQuery is Google Cloud's fully managed, serverless data warehouse for large-scale analytics using SQL.
Data warehouse
A data warehouse is a central repository of integrated, structured data optimized for analytics and reporting.
Data lake
A data lake is a storage repository that holds large amounts of raw data in its native format until it is needed.
Vertex AI
Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified platform for building, deploying, and managing machine learning and generative AI models.
Gemini
Gemini is Google's family of multimodal generative AI models, offered across Google Cloud for building AI-powered solutions.
Compute Engine
Compute Engine is Google Cloud's infrastructure-as-a-service offering that provides configurable virtual machines.
Cloud Run
Cloud Run is a serverless platform that runs containerized applications and scales automatically, including to zero.
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes service for deploying and operating containerized applications.
Identity and Access Management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the Google Cloud service that controls who can do what on which resources through roles and policies.
Site reliability engineering
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is Google's discipline that applies software-engineering practices to operations to run reliable services at scale.