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Compute Engine

Compute Engine

Google Cloud Compute Engine is Google Cloud’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering for provisioning highly configurable virtual machines.

Compute Engine supports:

  • Custom machine types (vCPU, memory) and predefined sizes
  • Shared core and dedicated core VMs
  • Persistent block storage (Persistent Disks: SSD/Standard/RAM-disk)
  • Network services (VPC, subnets, firewall, load balancers, Cloud NAT)
  • Autoscaling via Managed Instance Groups
  • VM images, custom images, and import/export workflows
  • Integration with IAM, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and other GCP services

Compute Engine is suitable for stateful applications, databases, container hosts, high-performance workloads, and enterprise infrastructure requiring OS-level control and predictable resource allocation.

8 vCPU
32 GB RAM
500 GB SSD
40 Regions

$140

Monthly Price

Starting price

10 TB

Bandwidth

Monthly transfer

32 Gbps

Network

Port speed

99.99%

SLA Uptime

Guaranteed

Features

Platform capabilities

Live Migration
Preemptible VMs
Custom Machine Types
Sole-tenant Nodes
Add-on
Shielded VMs

Managed Services

Additional platform offerings

Kubernetes
Databases
Load Balancers
Object Storage
CDN
DNS
Serverless
Container Registry
Monitoring
CI/CD

Security & Compliance

Enterprise-grade protection

Security Features

DDoS Protection
Firewall
VPC
SSH Keys
2FA
Encryption at Rest
Encryption in Transit
IAM
Audit Logs

Compliance

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001 GDPR Compliance CCPA CompliancePCI DSSHIPAA

Regions

40 locations worldwide

US Central
us-central1
USA
US East
us-east1
USA
Europe West
europe-west1
Belgium
Europe West
europe-west3
Germany
Asia East
asia-east1
Taiwan

Pricing

Monthly

$140

$0.19/hour

90 day free trial
$300 for 90 days

Billing Options

HourlyMonthlyReservedSpot

Additional Costs

Egress$0.12/GB
Persistent Disk$0.04/GB-mo
Snapshots$0.026/GB-mo

Specifications

vCPU8
CPU Typededicated
Architecturex86_64
Memory32 GB
Storage500 GB SSD
Bandwidth10 TB
Network32 Gbps
IPv41 included
GPU Available
NVIDIA T4 • 16GB • 1x

Operating Systems

UbuntuDebianCentOSRocky LinuxWindows ServerCustom ISO
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