Compute Engine overview

Compute Engine is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) product that offers self-managed virtual machine (VM) instances. Compute Engine offers VMs with a KVM hypervisor, operating systems for both Linux and Windows, and durable storage options. You can configure and control Compute Engine resources using the Trusted Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, or using a REST-based API. You can also use a variety of programming languages available with Google's Cloud Client Libraries.

Here are some of the benefits of using Compute Engine:

  • Extensibility: Compute Engine integrates with Trusted Cloud by S3NS technologies such as Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine, and BigQuery, to extend beyond the basic computational capability to create more complex and sophisticated applications.

  • Scalability: Scale the number of compute resources as needed without having to manage your own infrastructure. This is useful for businesses that experience sudden increases in traffic, because you can quickly add more instances to handle the increase and remove the instances after they are no longer needed.

What Compute Engine provides

Compute Engine provides flexibility so that you can run a wide-range of applications and workloads that support your needs. From batch processing to webserving or high performance computing you can configure Compute Engine to meet your needs.

Location selection

Trusted Cloud by S3NS offers a single region for you to deploy Compute Engine resources.

Compute Engine machine types

Compute Engine provides a comprehensive set of machine families, each containing machine types to choose from when you create a compute instance. Each machine family is comprised of machine series and predefined machine types within each series.

Compute Engine offers general-purpose, compute-optimized, storage-optimized, memory-optimized, and accelerator-optimized machine families. Compute Engine offers general-purpose, compute-optimized, storage-optimized, memory-optimized, and accelerator-optimized machine families.

For more information, see the Machine families resource guide.

Operating systems

Compute Engine provides many preconfigured public operating system images for Linux.

Storage options

You can use Hyperdisk in Trusted Cloud. Data on Hyperdisk volumes is preserved even if you stop the instance. Hyperdisk volumes offer configurable performance and can be resized dynamically.

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