Google has announced a new cloud service Compute Engine, offering large-scale Linux virtualization on Google's infrastructure. Google boasts that Compute Engine offers up to 50 percent more ...

Google’s Compute Engine is moving to Debian as its default operating system after a round of recent enhancements to Debian, including improved 32/64-bit compatibility.

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 ...

During the preview of the Compute Engine, Google supported two Linux distributions, Debian and Centos, customized with a Google-built kernel.

"Google Compute Engine gives you Linux virtual machines at Google-scale. You can spin up two VMs or 10,000 VMs," said Urs Hölzle, the man who oversees Google's vast infrastructure.

Google sells its machines by the Google Compute Engine Unit (GCEU), which it estimates is about a 1GHz to 1.2GHz Opteron from 2007. All of Google’s machines rent for 5.3 cents per GCEU per hour ...

Given the fact that it was announced last summer, it's taken quite a while for Google's cloud-based Compute Engine to get here, but what's important is that it's here. Well, at least for "general ...

Red Hat announced a deal today in which Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers could move their subscriptions to Google Compute Engine, a deal that could benefit both companies. Red Hat offers what it ...

Ari Balogh, a Google vice president, announced Google Compute Engine's general availability on Monday night and said the company cut prices 10 percent for ordinary server instances, cut them 60 ...

Google Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and App Engine’s flexible environment virtual machines ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server.

Rocky Linux 8 Optimized for Google Cloud is available for all x86-based Compute Engine VM families. It will soon also be available for the new Arm-based Tau T2A .