Google Cloud offers several managed relational database platforms, but Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner are not three tiers of the same product. They represent different […]
Professional Cloud Architect (PCA)
Google Cloud PCA: Shared VPC, VPC Peering, and Private Service Connect
Google Cloud has several ways to connect resources privately, but Shared VPC, VPC Network Peering, and Private Service Connect solve different organizational and technical problems. […]
Google Cloud PCA: IAM, Organization Policy, and VPC Service Controls
IAM, Organization Policy, and VPC Service Controls are all governance and security mechanisms in Google Cloud, but they answer different questions. IAM decides who can […]
Google Cloud PCA: Regional vs Multi-Region Architecture on Google Cloud
A regional architecture and a multi-region architecture can both be highly available, but they protect against different failures and impose different cost, consistency, and operational […]
Google Cloud PCA: Rehost, Replatform, and Refactor on Google Cloud
Cloud migration strategy is often summarized with labels such as rehost, replatform, and refactor. Those labels are useful only when they express a real decision […]