A Google Compute Engine instance is a virtual machine running on a Linux configuration. You can choose to customize as little or as much of your instances as you would like, including customizing ...

Google today announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource in Google Cloud that contains all the information required to create, back up, or restore a virtual machine.

Google’s preemptible virtual machine instances for Compute Engine are now generally available. The company launched these preemptible virtual machines (VMs) about four months ago. What makes ...

There are three available flavors in the Google Compute Engine (GCE): a standard instance called n1-standard-64, a high-memory instance called n1-highmem-64, and an instance with high CPU-to ...

Google today announced the general availability of the Google Compute Engine, the cloud computing platform it launched in the summer of 2012. As part of TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo ...

Using the left-hand navigation bar, click Compute Engine and then select VM instances from the item list. If this is your first VM on the platform, you should see a screen similar to Figure A ...

Google surprised its burgeoning base of infrastructure cloud users Wednesday with an across-the-board reduction in Compute Engine prices of about 10 percent, a move seen as yet another escalation ...

At Google I/O, Google made it clear it will go head to head with Amazon. But how do you choose between their clouds? InfoWorld described yesterday how Compute Engine is Google’s first unabashed ...

Google Compute Engine (GCE), the infrastructure service of Google Cloud Platform, is a late entrant in the market. Amazon EC2 was announced in 2006 while Microsoft added VMs to Azure in 2012.

Over at the Google Compute Blog, Hanan Youssef and Scott Van Woudenberg write that the company now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider.. Got compute- and memory-hungry ...