Google Cloud Platform

Introduction

Regions (Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)
- Collection of zones (isolated) eg "asia-east-a"
- Redundancy, lower latency when close to use
Software/Hardware -> Services
- Global Resources, eg disk images
- Regional Resources, eg static external IPs
- Zonal resources, eg VM instances, their disks
Project: all resources must belong to one
- Can't share between projects without VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
- Name, Project ID, Project Number
- Most resource names are unique to a project

Delete a Project:

Google CLI: Locally installable client or via Web
- eg: gcloud compute instance create