For a while now, Google has [supported their various Cloud Platform services on Stack Overflow][1], both in terms of directing developers to the site and in actually *answering questions* about using these services.

Apparently, they've noticed that some folks are asking questions on these services here, on Server Fault, as well - they've contacted us about adding this site as an additional resource for folks with questions that are more appropriate for this community. 

Google's developer support has generally been pretty good - they're not particularly prone to dumping their garbage on us. But they raised a question about tagging, so I took some time to review the situation here:

- Two related tags already existed: [tag:google-cloud-storage] and [tag:google-compute-engine]
- I found two questions on two additional tags: [tag:google-cloud-sql] and [tag:google-cloud-storage]
- There's no tag for the platform as a whole (that is, an equivalent to SO's [google-cloud-platform](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/google-cloud-platform)). 

I have decidedly mixed feelings about adding a google-cloud-platform tag. It *seems* overly-broad to me; better to have tags for specific services. However, there may be some administrative functions that are common to the platform as a whole, and y'all already have the *even more broad* [tag:google] tag which may be where such questions are ending up now. FWIW, our Google contact's concern is that having separate tags is going to be less important for folks in a support/administration role (you folks) than it is for programmers - and thus forcing askers to pick a specific product may be splitting hairs. 

Given this is clearly outside my area of expertise, I'm bringing the question to you: **should there be a google-cloud-platform tag here, and what, if any, should its purpose be defined as?**

**Update:** based on the responses here, I've tried to follow the model of the existing [tag:amazon-web-services] tag, and *added* [tag:google-cloud-platform] to the questions already tagged with the more specific tags listed above.


  [1]: https://cloud.google.com/support/#community