GCP - Cloud Hub vs App Hub vs Application Design Center

GCP App Hub is an application-centric management and governance service. Think of it as a centralized catalog or inventory for all of your applications. Its primary goal is to help you understand your existing cloud environment from the perspective of the applications that run within it, not just the raw infrastructure. Its core function is to provides a unified real-time view of all your applications and the Google Cloud resources they use, regardless of which projects they reside in.

Application Design Center (ADC): The "How" of Building Applications. The Application Design Center is a visual design and deployment tool. It's a service that helps you create and deploy new applications by defining their architecture using a visual canvas. It focuses on the creation and initial deployment phase of the application lifecycle. Core Function: Helps you design, share, and deploy application architectures using a visual interface, often with AI-powered assistance.

Cloud Hub represents a significant shift in how Google Cloud enables customers to manage their operations, moving from a scattered, resource-based approach to a contextualized, application-based one.

In essence, you can think of the relationship like this:

• You design a new application using the Application Design Center.
• The deployed application is automatically cataloged in App Hub.
• Cloud Hub then becomes your one-stop shop for managing, monitoring, and optimizing that application, along with all your other applications, in a single, unified interface.