It seems that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) will establish a Japanese subsidiary, so I will introduce the components of GCP.

This is Ohara from the technical sales department.

I received the following information from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) which is probably only for GCP users

To summarize briefly, it appears that a Japanese corporation has been established to fully develop GCP services in the Japanese market.

Additionally, there is a possibility that the company will open a Tokyo region sometime in 2016, so the establishment of a new company may be a move in line with that.

■ Google to open Tokyo region on GCP within this year
Source: atmarkit

When I searched for "Google Cloud Japan LLC," I found that the company's website hasn't been created yet, so I'm thinking they'll start expanding into the Japanese market in earnest.

Information from GCP

[Partial excerpt/Japanese translation]

Google Cloud Platform Dear Customers

In order to provide better services to customers in the growing Asia-Pacific region, Google Cloud Japan LLC ("Google Cloud Japan") has launched a new Google platform that provides Google Cloud Platform services to customers in Japan. We would like to inform you that we will become a company.

Your Google Platform License Agreement is hereby transferred from Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd ("Google APAC") to Google Cloud Japan.

No new procedures are required due to this change. For details, please refer to the notice regarding the transfer below.

■ Notice regarding the transfer of the Google Cloud Platform license agreement from Google APAC to Google Cloud Japan

1. This document is written by Google APAC as the Google Cloud Platform License Agreement (including exhibits, purchase orders, exhibits, attachments, and other attached documents thereto) between Customer and Google APAC, collectively referred to as " Pursuant to the assignment provisions of this Agreement, all rights and obligations of Google APAC under this Agreement ("Agreement") are legally transferred to Google Cloud Japan with an effective date of August 7, 2016 (the "Assignment Date"). This is to notify you that the information will be transferred and relocated.

Google Cloud Japan agrees to be bound by this Agreement and to perform all of Google APAC's obligations under this Agreement as if it were an original party to this Agreement. I will.

In the event of Google Cloud Japan's failure to comply with this Agreement, Google APAC will continue to be liable under this Agreement.

2. Except as provided herein, no changes will be made to this Agreement and no action is required by the Customer. Your service will continue uninterrupted and your credit card will be automatically charged as before.

3. All communications or inquiries regarding Google under this Agreement should be directed to the address below.

Google Cloud Japan LLC
Legal Department Email address: [email protected]

4. The translation of this notice is for your information only and only the English version is legally binding.

If there are any discrepancies between the two, the English version will be the original.
Thank you for your understanding.

Google Cloud Platform Team
Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. 8 Shenton Way #38-01 Singapore 068811

Google Cloud Japan LLC
Japan 106-6126
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

It was a bit of a long post, but looking at it this way, it seems that GCP is following the history of AWS, approaching the flow of "Amazon Japan" → "Amazon Data Services Japan" → and now "Amazon Web Services Japan". I'm doing it.

Main components that make up GCP

"GCP" is a general term for the various services provided by GCP. Here we will describe the components that make up GCP.

Google Compute Engine (GCE)

It is the most central IaaS service provided by Google, and is equivalent to AWS's EC2. We provide everything up to the OS layer as a managed service, and support Linux and Windows.

Features include almost no maintenance outages, the ability to easily create private network configurations that span regions, and fast instance startup speeds.

Google App Engine (GAE)

As a PaaS service, we provide application runtime and execution environment as a managed service.

It supports programming languages ​​such as PHP, Java, Python, and Go, and is characterized by high-speed autoscaling depending on the load.

Google Cloud SQL

Equivalent to AWS's RDS. A managed database that is MySQL customized for GCP.

It has almost all the features of MySQL, and you can leave time-consuming tasks to GCP, such as setting up security patches, updates, and backups. It also requires no software installation or maintenance.

Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Equivalent to Amazon S3 in AWS. It is a managed service for high-performance, high-availability, and low-cost object storage that maintains the functionality and quality of general object storage while also providing a cache function called edge cache.

AWS has an object storage service called ``Amazon S3 Glacier'' that archives large amounts of static files at low cost, while Google also offers ``Cloud Storage Nearline'' as a competitor.

And while Amazon S3 Glacier restores data in hours, Cloud Storage Nearline seems to take seconds. is probably also based Google BigQuery in the architecture behind the scenes

summary

There is still little information regarding GCP, but with the establishment of this Japanese corporation, the influx of information about GCP is likely to become even more active.

I think there will be more cases of social games and web application operations using GCE, as well as development cases using GAE, so I look forward to future trends.