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Between Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore, Cloud Firestore and now Cloud Filestore the naming of these services is frustratingly confusing. Oh and of course there are also BigQuery and BigTable, which do not really give any clearer picture of the actual service. I've used GCP extensively for more than a year now and I still get confused about the different storage services way too often.

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I came in here to say the same thing.

"Google Cloud Storage" could be a product but also the encompassing category of all the things you mentioned?

Also on the Firebase pricing page (https://firebase.google.com/pricing) they have a "Realtime Database", is that related to datastore or cloud storage?

They also have another item there just labeled "Storage". Is that one of the above?

And at the bottom you get "Google Cloud Platform" on the "Blaze Plan". Is that the products you mentioned that all start with "Cloud"?

AWS uses random unique names and Azure uses more standard component names, while GCP seems to be in the middle.

No approach is "the best". They're all very different services and if you're going to use them then you would've read the overview anyway.

Having a product overview is still not an excuse for terrible naming.

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