10 Things That Make Cloud Platform a Next Gen Cloud Mike Dahlin Principal Engineer

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10. Sharks with frickin’ lasers Software defined network (SDN) backbone Google Fiber Google-class global peering source: Google

10. Sharks with frickin’ lasers World-class global network • Advanced software defined network (SDN) backbone • Google-class global peering • Google Fiber • Sharks and lasers and fibers! vodep source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFW1YdBagU

9. Free, Fast Connections to Google Low Latency High Bandwidth $0/MB

● Use the same infrastructure Google uses ● Google can handle your heavy loads without breaking a sweat ● 1M QPS load balancing without pre-warming 8. Google Scale 1M QPSs Total Cost $10 USD 4 seconds to ramp Stabilized in <120 sec source: Google

8. Google Scale for Eurovision [Eurovision] is the one of the most watched non- sporting TV events in the world, with an estimated 125 million live viewers every year! During the first Eurovision semifinal voting phase, traffic went up by a factor of 5. We were able to quickly spin up extra capacity in just a few minutes and handle the traffic that we were receiving. In the end, the infrastructure was ready for the Eurovision finals on Saturday. Google Cloud Platform, grandcentrix, and Scalr were able to deliver 50,000 RPS, with 99% of the requests completed within 35ms at the app server layer. - Thomas Orozco, Solutions Engineer, Scalr

7. Google’s Cloud is Green Google has been the most open in the industry about the importance of increasing not only energy efficiency within the sector, but also the need to move our energy sources to renewable energy. Google has made significant efforts to increase the company’s transparency. This is a great step forward…Google’s commitment to using renewable energy as much as possible has set the bar for the industry. – Greenpeace

7. Google’s Cloud is Green Continuous PUE Improvement Average PUE for all data centers 1.26 1.22 1.18 1.14 1.10 PUE Trailing twelve-month (TTM) PUE Quarterly PUE 1.12 1.11 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 source: Google

6. Supercharged Disks 2TB Physical HDD 2TB Persistent Disk 120 MB/s Sequential Read/Write 120 MB/s Sequential Read/Write 75 Random Read IOPS 600 Random Read IOPS 8x 75 Random Write IOPS 2400 Random Write IOPS 32x source: Google

10 TB 6. Supercharged Disk II ● Move between machines ● Shared volumes ● No charge for IOs ● Big volumes

5. Consistent Performance One of the great things with Google Compute Engine in our experience is that the performance is really reliable. – Joe Masters Emison Founder & VP of Research and Development, BuildFax source: Google

4. Serious Security Galactic? ● World class physical security ● Automatic encryption at rest ○ PD, Cloud Storage, CloudSQL ● Secure communication ● Certifications include ISO 27001, SSAE-16, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3

3. Zero to 100 in 38 Fast Startup: 0 to 100 in 38 seconds ● Scale services and analysis to meet changing demands Cluster Boot to SSHable Cluster Size Seconds per VM source: Google

2. Per hour Minute 0.6 0.45 0.3 0.15 COST 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hourly Per Minute HOURS source: Google

1. Per hour Minute Second 250 200 150 100 50 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 EXECUTION TIME (sec) NUMBER OF LEAF SERVERS Figure 13: Scaling the system from 1000 to 4000 nodes using a top-k query Q 5 on a trillion-row table T 4 source: Google

Consistent Persistent Disk Green Secure Scale Sharks Google 0 to 100 Per-minute Per-second

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