The red, blue, green, and yellow Google Cloud logo stands in front of the building during the opening of the new Google Cloud data center.
Google Cloud Platform offers the IT infrastructure businesses need to perform cloud data storage, and deploy applications on a global scale. 
  • Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing services vendor like AWS or Microsoft Azure.
  • Google Cloud Platform offers products in categories like computing, storage, data analytics, etc.
  • Google Cloud Platform has a free tier, but most users will need the pay-as-you-go subscription.

Despite being among the biggest and most important cloud service providers in the world, Google's cloud computing service — called Google Cloud Platform — may not be as well known as some of its top competitors.