Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that allows users to launch and manage virtual machines (VMs) on Google's global infrastructure. It provides scalable, high-performance compute resources, enabling users to run applications, databases, and workloads…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Google Compute Engine was created to solve the challenge of provisioning, managing, and scaling compute resources for applications and workloads in a flexible, on-demand, and cost-effective manner. Before GCE, organizations struggled with the significant capital expenditure, operational overhead, and scalability limitations of maintaining their own physical data centers and server hardware.
- Platforms
- Google's global data centers (underlying infrastructure), Supports guest operating systems such as Linux distributions (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat, SLES), Windows Server, and custom images.
Related technologies
Notable users
- PayPal
- Target
- Khan Academy
- Spotify
- The New York Times
- Snapchat