Google Cloud/Cassandra
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Take a look at the Google Cloud launcher list of preconfigured instances: https://cloud.google.com/launcher/solution
You'll see two different versions of Cassandra:
The Google click to deploy version of Cassandra is a Google-created docker image that contains the Cassandra stack and is intended to run on the Google Cloud platform.
The Bitnami version of Cassandra is maintained by Bitnami, a company that works on maintaining lots of applications, stacks, and appliances that are all ready to run in any cloud you happen to be on - whether it is Google Cloud or Amazon or Azure.
Snitches
If using Google Cloud, need to specify a google cloud-specific snitch file: http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/architecture/architectureSnitchGoogle.html
Data centers are equivalent to regions, and zones are equivalent to racks in the data center.