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What is Google Compute Engine?

Compute Engine is Google's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for organizations to create and run cloud-based virtual machines.

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Compute Engine enables you to create and run large-scale workloads on virtual machines hosted on Google Cloud. Get running quickly with pre-built and ready-to-go configurations or create machines of your own with the optimal amount of vCPU and memory required for your workload.

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Secure and customizable compute service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure. By offering custom machine types and predefined machine types, Compute Engine allows you to tailor your infrastructure to your workload - you aren’t locked in to your choice.

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Rohan B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Google Compute Engine Simplified My Cloud Workflow – A Hands-On Review"
The flexibility to scale up/down without downtime is a game-changer. I run a data-heavy app, and spinning up custom VM instances during traffic spi...
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Kunal B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Compute engine is the best choice if you are in google ecosystem"
If your in google ecosystem using its services like vertex for AI and Firebase for your data it's makes really smooth to use them if you are hostin...
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Govind K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"It's awesome to use"
It's user friendly and easy to use interface.
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Google Compute Engine Demo - Estimate your cloud migration & modernization costs with a free assessment
Estimate your cloud migration & modernization costs with a free assessment using the link: https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/tco-assessment-19/form.html
Google Compute Engine Demo - [Use Case] Choosing the right virtual machine type
Whether you’re new to cloud computing, or just getting started on Google Cloud, these recommendations can help you optimize your Compute Engine usage and benefits. The table provides machine type recommendations for different workloads.
Google Compute Engine Demo - [Use Case] VM migration to Compute Engine
Compute Engine provides tools to help you bring your existing applications to the cloud. You can have your applications running on Compute Engine within minutes while your data migrates transparently in the background. Bring your existing applications from your physical servers, VMware vSphere, A...
Google Compute Engine Demo - [Use Case] Genomics data processing
Process petabytes of genomic data in seconds with Compute Engine and our high performance computing solution. Our scalable and flexible infrastructure enables research to continue without disruptions. Competitive pricing and discounts help you stay within budget to convert ideas into discoveries,...
Google Compute Engine Demo - [Use Case] BYOL or use license-included images
You can run your Windows-based applications either by bringing your own licenses and running them in Compute Engine sole-tenant nodes or using a license-included image. After you migrate to Google Cloud, optimize or modernize your license usage to achieve your business goals. Take advantage of th...
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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

It was easy to learn and use. The instructions were available easyly for me to get started with the Google Compute Engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

The challange was to switch from current service to Google Compute Engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

PReviously we were working with different cloud servcies switching to Googloe compute engine made the process easy to impletemnt and us. It was easy for us to train our people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

Ease of use, features are easily accessible and proper guidelines and tutorials are provided in the platform itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

With the whole lot of features, itn sometimes become a bit confusing as well ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compute resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

Best for scalable customizable vms with strong performance google cloud integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

It is good but pricing details can sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Compute Engine offers scalable, cost-effective VMs with high availability, security, and seamless integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Products used within Google Cloud: Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM), Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SDK, Google Cloud Monitoring, Google Cloud Logging, Google Cloud Debugger, Google Cloud Console, Migrate to Virtual Machines, Google Cloud Firewall, Google Cloud Deploy
What do you like best about Google Cloud?

I have used some top cloud products and compared to them Google Cloud is much easier and has a clean UI. It is very easy to scp into VMs and manage them. It is easy to add your public keys to the VMs so you can access them from your local machine. Implementing scripted VMs, images from the marketplace or just using default Linux or Windows images is pretty easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

I wish it was more popular than it is. It is missing all the latest services that other cloud products are providing like AI models etc. The one complicated part that I don't like is network management. You need to create and add tags at a few different places to use a particular network on a VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

I like how uncomplicated the UI is and you can get elastic IPs easier on GCloud vs other cloud products. It is also easy to manage and maintain VMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

Customized VM instances are one of the most valuable features. The flexible ratio like memory-to-vCPU ratios ranging from 0.5 GB to 8 GB of RAM per vCPU mind blowing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

incurring storage costs even when a VM is turned off is bigger challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

On demand compute engine availability for surprised traffic on platform.

Aslo, helps in global reach and faster development of small applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

The support is amazing and lot of SDK support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

I don't use it a lot, because of the cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

The autoscaling group really stands out a lot, I don't have to provision a full GKE for a small application, i can rather just use GCE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I love how easy it is to understand even for a beginner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

Cost estimation in GCE is little challenging and is difficult to predict Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

GCE is solving the need for scalable and virtualized computing resources by providing many customizable options to cater for different business requirements. As a developer myself I rely on cloud solutions for many projects and GCE offers good services for many different scenarios Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

Google Cloud Compute Engine is a great solution for hosting websites on self-managed virtual machines, we have tested its service and compared it with other providers like Vultr, Linode, or Digital Ocean and it is undoubtedly far superior, the stability and speed of the VMs are much higher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

Accessing technical support is very complicated, if there is a problem with the service it takes a considerable amount of time for support to help or even validate the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

They keep their servers constantly updated, which allows companies to have modern infrastructure. Additionally, the implementation of extra services is ideal for having everything with a single provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ease of Implementation,Number of Features, Frequency of Use , Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

Complexity, cost management, limited OS support, networking setup, instance availability, customer support, documentation, integration challenges, customization limits, cold start times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

dont have any problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

Has a variety of configurations for different applications and is cost-effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

The UI is a bit cluttered and it can be difficult to estimate costs at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its saving me the hassle of running my own servers and maintaining them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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