Top Advantages of Using Google Cloud Platform
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The document discusses Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its advantages, highlighting its secure, cost-effective hosting solution that has led to increased adoption among businesses like Evernote and Spotify. GCP offers competitively lower pricing compared to AWS and Azure, along with features such as live migration of virtual machines and a vast private network that contributes to its performance and reliability. The document emphasizes GCP's strong security model and commitment to infrastructure expansion, making it an attractive choice for managed WordPress hosting through Kinsta.
Top Advantages of Using Google Cloud Platform
- 2. What is Google Cloud Platform? What are the Benefits to Hosting Your Website or App There?
- 3. According to the SADA Systems 84% of IT managers surveyed are using public cloud infrastructure today.
- 4. Public cloud adoption growing and enterprise IT becoming more comfortable with the prospect of running their most sensitive data on public cloud infrastructure.” Tony Safoian, president and CEO at SADA Systems
- 5. The surveyed IT Managers Prefer These Platforms: www.kinsta.com
- 6. Cisco is forecasting that by 2020, cloud traffic will represent 92 percent of all data center network traffic.
- 7. According to Google Trends interest surrounding Google Cloud Platform itself has been on a very rapid rise over the past couple years. www.kinsta.com
- 8. More and more companies are migrating because It offers the most secure Flexible Cost- effective solution It saves money on IT staffing and allows for almost instant scaling of any online platform or solution
- 9. Recently Evernote made the decision to migrate its 200 million users to the Google Cloud Platform.
- 10. And Spotify Announced Google Cloud Platform Partnership early 2017
- 11. Other notable companies that are using Google Cloud Platform
- 12. Google Cloud Platform consists of a set of physical servers, as well as virtual resources like virtual machines (VMs) that are contained in Google’s data centers around the globe.
- 13. Each data center location is in a global region such as Central US, Western Europe, and East Asia.
- 14. • Netherlands • Montreal • California • São Paulo • Finland • Frankfurt • London • Mumbai • Sydney Upcoming new data centers through 2017:
- 15. Google Cloud Hosting Advantages
- 16. It Has Better Pricing Than Competitors www.kinsta.com
- 17. It Has Better Pricing Than Competitors www.kinsta.com Google bills in minute-level increments they give you discounted prices for long-running workloads. No up-front commitment required!
- 18. AWS requires prepays in the form of “reserved instances” to be eligible for the discounts. Azure only offers a 5% discount on a 12-month prepay.
- 19. AWS vs Google Cloud On Google Cloud Platform you get more IOPS for less than 1/3 of the cost!
- 20. Example configuration AWS $1,102.50/month with 3 year contract vs. Google Cloud’s $470.64/month.
- 21. Azure vs Google Cloud Azure setup $1,602.68/month vs. Google Cloud’s $532.82/month.
- 22. In late 2016, AWS reduced prices. HFT Guy, a developer from London discovered that Google Cloud was still 50% cheaper!
- 23. Private Global Fiber Network
- 24. One thing that sets Google Cloud Hosting apart from some of the other players is that their network is one of the biggest in the world.
- 25. They have a private distributed backbone between all the data centers.
- 26. Just to illustrate, the 9,000km trans-Pacific Google cable is the highest-capacity undersea cable ever built and lands in Oregon in the United States and two landing points in Japan.
- 27. By having such a large infrastructure and network, this allows Google to give us those cheaper computing prices as shown earlier.
- 28. Live Migration of Virtual Machines
- 29. Another huge advantage for Google Cloud Platform is the live migrations feature of VM's. Neither AWS, Azure providers this functionality.
- 30. Benefits of live migrations: • Better addressing issues such as patching • repairing • updating software and hardware
- 31. Here is an illustration of the steps involved in a live VM migration:
- 32. Did you know that besides live migration of VM's, Google also offers resizing of persistent disks without any downtime?
- 34. Improved Performance At Kinsta, we moved our entire infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform early 2016.
- 35. Improved Performance Review Signal (independent benchmark test) threw 10,000 concurrent users against our servers and Kinsta had flawless performance with flat average response times..
- 36. Improved Performance The Google Cloud machines easily handle 60k+ concurrent visitors without any hiccups on our clients sites.
- 37. Improved Performance And just by migrating new clients to Google Cloud Platform we usually see a 50% decrease in website load times!
- 38. Improved Performance State of the Art Security
- 39. Improved Performance Choosing Google Cloud Platform means you get the benefit of a security model that has been built upon over the course of 15 years!
- 40. Some platform wide security features include:
- 41. Improved Performance All data is encrypted in transit between Google, the customers, and data centers
- 42. Improved Performance Data stored on persistent disks is encrypted under 256-bit
- 43. Improved Performance Commitment to enterprise security certifications with regular audits for SSAE16, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI, and HIPAA compliance
- 44. Improved Performance See more in-depth behind the scenes in Google’s security whitepaper
- 45. Improved Performance Dedication to Continued Expansion
- 46. Improved Performance Google has continued to rapidly build out their infrastructure for Google Cloud Platform.
- 47. Improved Performance In 2016 they announced the locations of new strategically placed Google Cloud Regions.
- 48. Improved Performance “Our goal remains the same: we want to build the most open cloud for all businesses and make it easy for them to build and run great software.” — Brian Stevens, Vice President of Google Cloud
- 49. Improved Performance Redundant Backups Google Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% durability.
- 50. Improved Performance Google stores data redundantly, with automatic checksums to ensure data integrity.
- 51. Improved Performance Google Cloud storage stores your data redundantly in at least two regions
- 52. Improved Performance Google Cloud is not only cheaper, but you also benefit from one of the largest networks in the world! Less latency and more accurate compute prices! To summarize,
- 53. Improved Performance www.kinsta.com Kinsta is the first managed WordPress host to exclusively powered by Google Cloud Platform.
- 54. Improved Performance It helps making our customers’ sites faster, more stable and secure.
- 55. Improved Performance It also ensures customers have less downtime as we can now utilize live migrations of virtual machines.
- 56. www.kinsta.com For more details make sure you read this in-depth analysis: Top Advantages of Choosing Google Cloud Hosting
- 58. CONTACT Thank you! Do you have any questions or thoughts? Do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to hearing from you. The team at Kinsta. Performance Managed WordPress Hosting WWW.KINSTA.COM