Scalable Infrastructure with Google Cloud
Google Compute Engine (GCE) Infrastructure as a Service
Google Compute Engine is the Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) component of the Google Cloud Platform that facilitates the following.
Compute Engine
Compute Engine VMs boot quickly and are consistently high performance. Compute Engine also offers industry-leading local SSD performance. Due to Google’s fiber-optic network that transfers the data to the nearest destination, it is much faster in performance.
Google bills in second-level increments, so you only pay for the compute time you use. Google provides specialized discounts called sustained-use discounts, that automatically give discounted prices for long-running workloads with no up-front commitment required. Most of the existing cloud infrastructure providers give discounts if you commit for longer-term but Google committed use discounts are without any upfront commitment period.
Create large compute clusters that benefit from strong and consistent cross-machine bandwidth. Connect to machines in other data centers and to other Google services using Google’s private global fiber network. Create an instance, check the network configs, and run some tests.
Google cloud compute tools help resize your clusters, create machine images, virtualize the network. Cloud Compute tools facilitate preemptible VMs for batch workloads, and custom machine types to optimize specific computing needs. Google pricing model does not have lock-in periods to push you into using obsolete machine types.