Google Cloud

Google Cloud Vertex AI is a managed platform for building, deploying, and using generative AI and machine learning models. It provides access to Google and third-party models, including Anthropic models used with tools such as Claude Code, along with APIs and development services for AI applications.

Google Distributed Cloud is Google's on-premises and distributed cloud platform for running compute, networking, storage, and related infrastructure at a customer's site. It supports deploying trained AI models, Gemini, and AI agents while keeping data within the customer's environment.

Google's cloud computing platform, providing AI and cloud computing services for security, data management, and hybrid and multicloud environments. In the cited video, GCP is discussed as a source of rented GPU spot instances when a company’s owned or contracted capacity is insufficient.

Google Cloud Shell is a browser-accessible command-line environment hosted by Google Cloud for managing projects, creating files, configuring permissions, and deploying resources. It provides a temporary virtual machine with common cloud-development tools and a persistent home directory. In the cited video context, it is used to run commands for an AI agent and execute Kubernetes commands.

Microsoft Azure is an open cloud computing platform and enterprise infrastructure service used to deploy and operate software. It provides infrastructure as a service, virtual machines, databases, containers, serverless computing, Kubernetes, storage, networking, monitoring, security, analytics, and developer tools. Azure also hosts AI-oriented services for models, machine learning, applications, and agents, and connects AI, data, business context, applications, and agents across an enterprise.