Across
- 2. as a service (PaaS): Focuses on deployment and management of apps without worrying about hardware or OS.
- 5. Kubernetes Engine (GKE): A managed platform for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.
- 6. cloud: Where an organization has virtualized servers in its own data centers to create a private on-premises environment.
- 9. management Visibility: Understanding current spending, trends, and forecasts to optimize cloud costs.
- 10. as a service (IaaS): When an organization outsources their IT needs at the infrastructure level, moving some or all to virtualized data centers in the cloud.
- 12. computing: The technology and processes needed to store, manage, and access data that is transferred over the cloud.
- 13. cloud: Where an organization uses a combination of on-premises or private cloud infrastructure and public cloud services, with interconnections.
- 15. (Application programming interface): Technical tools that enable integration between applications.
- 16. API: A pre-trained ML model using Google's data to detect faces, objects, text, and sentiment in images.
- 18. data: Highly organized data like customer records, easily stored and managed in databases.
- 19. A metaphor for the network of data centers which store and compute information available through the internet.
- 20. lake: A repository designed to store, process, and secure large amounts of structured, semistructured, and unstructured data in its native format.
- 22. Language API: An API that discovers syntax, entities, and sentiment in text and classifies it using Google data.
- 24. Any information that is useful to an organization.
- 26. as a service (SaaS): A product run and managed by the service provider that customers use without maintaining it.
- 28. AI: Google Cloud’s unified managed platform for ML building services, used to train existing or custom models.
- 29. A fully featured API management platform.
Down
- 1. Intelligence (AI): A broad term for machines capable of tasks normally requiring human intelligence, like visual perception or decision-making.
- 3. Where an organization is using multiple public cloud providers as part of its architecture.
- 4. power: Refers to the speed at which a computer is able to process data.
- 7. management Accountability: Clearly defining responsibilities for cost management to encourage reliable spending.
- 8. computing: Resources like compute power are automatically provisioned as needed, businesses only pay when running a query or application.
- 11. machines (VMs): Software that acts like a real computer with an operating system on a machine.
- 12. Providing isolated environments to run software services, more lightweight and efficient than virtual machines.
- 14. An organized collection of data, generally stored in tables and accessed electronically from a computer system.
- 17. Learning (ML): A branch within AI where computers learn from data to make predictions or decisions without explicit programming.
- 20. transformation: When an organization takes advantage of new technologies, such as cloud, to redesign and redefine relationships with their customers, employees, and partners.
- 21. data: Data with no organization, tends to be qualitative like audio or video files.
- 23. Engine: A PaaS for developing and hosting web applications on a fully managed serverless platform.
- 25. warehouse: Assembles data from multiple sources including databases, built to rapidly analyze and report massive datasets.
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