Compute:
- Compute Engine: VMs (equivalent to EC2)
- GKE: Managed Kubernetes. Generally considered more polished than EKS
- Cloud Run: Serverless containers
- Cloud Functions: Serverless functions
Storage:
- Cloud Storage: Object storage (like S3)
- Persistent Disk: Block storage for VMs
- Filestore: Managed NFS
Networking:
- VPC: Global by default (unlike AWS regional VPCs)
- Cloud Load Balancing: Global L7 and regional L4
- Cloud DNS: DNS service
GCP differentiators:
- Global VPCs and load balancing
- BigQuery for analytics
- Strong Kubernetes support (GKE Autopilot)