Managed Services

• Partial or complete solutions offered as a service by GCP
• PaaS or SaaS solutions
• Using a managed service allows us to outsource the maintenance overhead to Google

BigQuery

• Is Google Cloud’s serverless, highly scalable and cost-effective cloud data warehouse
• It is fully managed, allows for super fast queries and offers petabyte scale
• There is no infrastructure for us to manage

Dataflow

• Is a managed service for executing a wide variety of data processing patterns
• Offers serverless, fully managed data processing
• Offers batch and stream processing, and it can autoscale to millions of QPS
• It is using beam, open source programming language

Dataprep

• It is an intelligent data service for visually exploring, cleaning and preparing data for analysis and machine learning
• It is serverless, works at any scale
• It can suggest ideal data transformation, offers automatic schema detection

Dataproc

• Fully managed service for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop clusters
• Offers per-second billing, with the possibility to use preemptible instances
• It is super fast to start, scale and shut down