If you want to test Google's Cloud platform but not sure if it is worth your money, Google is offering a 60-day free trial. You get $300 worth credits in your account but you are limited to a maximum of 8 cores to run without any Service Level Agreement (SLA). You would still need to provide your credit card details to sign up for the free trial but Google is promising they would not charge you unless you upgrade to a paid account.
You get to use all the services provided by the Google Cloud Platform including Google Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL and Cloud Datastore and more. If you come from an AWS background, those are equivalents of EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS and DynamoDB respectively. You can read more of such comparisons here.
I just signed up for the free trial with the expectation to gain some hands-on experience on the platform. I feel the platform documentation is a bit cluttered; it could have been better organized by letting me know my progress at any point and giving me a clue of what I should read next.
You get to use all the services provided by the Google Cloud Platform including Google Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL and Cloud Datastore and more. If you come from an AWS background, those are equivalents of EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS and DynamoDB respectively. You can read more of such comparisons here.
