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Google Cloud

What this site holds for Google Cloud: the services it maps to the jobs in the example workloads, the prices in the catalog, where those prices come from and the vendor's own pages. Nothing here rates or ranks the vendor.

The vendor's own pages

Google Cloud pricing
Google Cloud compliance programs and certifications, as published by the vendor. This site does not restate certifications.
Price source used here: Cloud Billing Catalog API (API key)

Links checked to load on 3 Nov 2026.

Services in the service map

Google Cloud has an equivalent service for 10 of the 12 jobs in the map. Where it has none, the reason is shown, and the job is treated as a gap in a comparison, never as zero.

Google Cloud, services by job
Job	Service
IoT device gateway	Not offered Google retired Cloud IoT Core on 16 Aug 2023. The usual path now is a partner MQTT broker in front of Pub/Sub.
Event streaming	Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Stream processing	Google Cloud Dataflow (streaming)
Time-series database	Google Cloud Bigtable
Object storage	Google Cloud Storage (Standard, regional)
General-purpose VM	Google Compute Engine (N2)
Edge runtime	Not offered Google has no managed IoT edge runtime since IoT Core was retired. Google Distributed Cloud is a hardware offering for larger sites.
Managed PostgreSQL	Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (Enterprise)
HTTP load balancer	Cloud Load Balancing (global external Application Load Balancer)
Internet data transfer	Google Cloud network egress (Premium Tier)
SQL on the data lake	BigQuery (on-demand, external tables on Cloud Storage)
Batch data transform	Google Cloud Dataflow (batch)

Job

Service

IoT device gateway

Not offered
Google retired Cloud IoT Core on 16 Aug 2023. The usual path now is a partner MQTT broker in front of Pub/Sub.

Event streaming

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Stream processing

Google Cloud Dataflow (streaming)

Time-series database

Google Cloud Bigtable

Object storage

Google Cloud Storage (Standard, regional)

General-purpose VM

Google Compute Engine (N2)

Edge runtime

Not offered
Google has no managed IoT edge runtime since IoT Core was retired. Google Distributed Cloud is a hardware offering for larger sites.

Managed PostgreSQL

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL (Enterprise)

HTTP load balancer

Cloud Load Balancing (global external Application Load Balancer)

Internet data transfer

Google Cloud network egress (Premium Tier)

SQL on the data lake

BigQuery (on-demand, external tables on Cloud Storage)

Batch data transform

Google Cloud Dataflow (batch)

Price catalog

Google Cloud is not in the price catalog yet. The vendor's price feed gives no vCPU or memory per instance size, and a source for those figures has not been chosen. The estimator still prices Google Cloud (44 price lines).

Freshness and known gaps are on the data status page.

Regions in the comparison

India (Mumbai / Pune): asia-south1
US East (Virginia / S. Carolina): us-east1

Only these two region groups are compared so far. A full list of Google Cloud regions is not on this site yet.

Compared with other clouds

Not on this page yet

A list of regions with countries and cities, certifications by service, billing increments and free tier terms need to be read from the vendor's own pages and are not here yet. Use the vendor links above for those.