seven categories of GCP services

• Compute: houses a variety of machine types that support any type of workload. The different computing options let you decide how involved you want to be with operational details and infrastructure amongst other things.
• Storage: data storage and database options for structured or unstructured, relational or non relational data.
• Networking: services that balance application traffic and provision security rules amongst other things.
• Stackdriver: a suite of cross-cloud logging, monitoring, trace, and other service reliability tools.
• Tools: services for developers managing deployments and application build pipelines.
• Big Data: services that allow you to process and analyze large datasets.
• Artificial Intelligence: a suite of APIs that run specific artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks on the Google Cloud platform.

This link will take you to documentation that covers each of these categories in more depth if you are interested.

The following table pulls definitions from the roles documentation, which gives a brief overview of viewer, editor, and owner role permissions:

Role Name	Permissions
roles/viewer	Permissions for read-only actions that do not affect state, such as viewing (but not modifying) existing resources or data.
roles/editor	All viewer permissions, plus permissions for actions that modify state, such as changing existing resources.
roles/owner	All editor permissions and permissions for the following actions: Manage roles and permissions for a project and all resources within the project. Set up billing for a project.

 

APIs and Services

When Qwiklabs provisions a new GCP Project for a lab instance, it enables most APIs behind the scenes so you can work on the lab's tasks right away. Be aware that when you create your own GCP projects outside of Qwiklabs, you will have to enable certain APIs yourself.