With over 40 different IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services, the GCP ecosystem is rich and complex. These services can be grouped into six different categories:

• Hosting and computation
• Storage and databases
• Networking
• ML
• Identity and security
• Resource management and monitoring

In the following section, we learn how to set up and manage a single VM instance on Google Compute Engine. But, before that, we need to create our account.