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