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View all pricingPreemptible Price - Predefined Memory
0.000892 / GB
Three-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
$0.001907 / GB
One-year commitment price - Predefined Memory
$0.002669 / GB
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $0 GB
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Product Details
What is Google Compute Engine?
Google Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product from Google Cloud. It provides virtual machines with carbon-neutral infrastructure which run on the same data centers that Google itself uses.
Predefined Machine Types
Virtual machine configurations for micro instances to instances with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory
Custom Machine Types
Or create and customized, virtual machines with the shape (i.e. vCPU and memory) needed for each project
Persistent Disks
Network storage, up to 64 TB in size, can be attached to VMs as persistent disks. Create persistent disks in HDD or SSD formats. If a VM instance is terminated, its persistent disk retains data and can be attached to another instance. Take snapshots create new persistent disks from that snapshot.
Local SSD
Always-encrypted local solid-state drive (SSD) block storage. Local SSDs are physically attached to the server hosting the virtual machine instance. Local SSD sizes up to 3 TB are available for any VM with at least 1 vCPU.
Global Load Balancing
Distribute incoming requests across pools of instances across multiple regions.
Batch Processing
Cost effectively run large compute and batch jobs using Preemptible VMs. Fixed pricing and no contracts or reservations make it easy: simply check a box when you create the VM and turn them off when the work is done.
Containers
Run, manage, and orchestrate Docker containers directly on Compute Engine VMs or with Google Kubernetes Engine.
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Google Compute Engine Technical Details
Deployment Types | SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews and Ratings
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- Google App Engine
But we hardly have much control over the VMs and the OS offering is not much. We had a limited amount of OS version supported. Auto-scalability was also one of the reason.
We got rid of all the problems once we made a decision to use the GCE VMs
Compute Engine supports all of our needs
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Google Compute Engine. It's good.
Outside of ease of use and configuration, I haven't experienced performance problems across any of the cloud services that I have used.
Why GCE can be considered as a DR multicloud scenario
Great Service
Best in breed mid market cloud compute: GCE
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
The Foundation for Cloud Processing
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Google Cloud Engine -- a cost-benefit comparison is sorely needed. Because everything else is there.
Excelent cloud solution
Google's Compute Engine is Good if You Like the Google Ecosystem, and Probably Even if You Don't Like Google
Ease to start, easy to maintain
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
The best cloud solution
Reliable and user-friendly IaaS platform
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Microsoft Azure
Google delivers
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Host scalable and globally distrubuted compute systems to get best value for money in cloud
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and VMware ESXi
Google does it right
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), DigitalOcean and Heroku
My two years experience with Google Compute Engine
- Digital Ocean
All in all, GCE is a standard tool that every engineer should have in their toolbox.
GCE - the underrated underdog of the market
Microsoft Azure is a newcomer in the market with focus on enterprise customers. The prior focus on the Microsoft stack (which they've moved away from) has been a huge negative, and something they've had to overcome by layering other tools on top of their system and offering cut rate pricing.
Google Compute Engine: The ONLY choice for cloud computing
- AWS and Azure