Virtual machine (VM) instances
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Virtual machine instances
An overview of Compute Engine instances.
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Instance life cycle
Learn about the life cycle and the different statuses of your Compute Engine instances.
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Machine types
Learn about the different machine types you can use for your Compute Engine instances.
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CPU platforms
Learn about the different CPU platforms that you can use for your Compute Engine instances.
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GPUs on Compute Engine
Learn about the different GPU platforms that you can use for your Compute Engine instances.
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Images
An overview of images that you can use with Compute Engine instances.
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Guest environment
The guest environment package allows custom images to work on Compute Engine.
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Live migration
An overview of live migration, a process that keeps your virtual machine instances running during host system events such as software or hardware updates.
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Preemptible VM instances
An overview of preemptible virtual machine instances.
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Shielded VM
An overview of Shielded VM, which offers verifiable integrity of your Compute Engine VM instances.
SSH connections to Linux VMs
Instance templates
Instance groups
Machine images
Windows on Compute Engine
Sole-tenant nodes
Storage
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Storage options
This page compares the different storage solutions that are available to your Compute Engine instances.
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Block storage performance
This page provides an overview of persistent disk performance and explains how factors such as disk size, machine type, and vCPU count may affect performance limits.
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Persistent disk snapshots
This document provides an overview of snapshots, which can be used to back up your persistent disks.
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Data protection options
This document provides an overview of options for backing up and replicating your persistent disk data.
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High availability options using regional persistent disk
This page provides an overview of how to use regional persistent disk for your high availability services.
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Regional persistent disk failover
This page provides an overview of failover scenarios for regional persistent disks.
VM Manager
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VM Manager
An overview of the VM Manager offering on Compute Engine.
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OS inventory management
An overview of OS inventory management. OS inventory management is used to collect and view operating system details.
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OS patch management
Get an overview of OS patch management. OS patch management is used to apply operating system patches across a set of VM instances.
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OS configuration management
Get an overview of OS configuration management. OS configuration management service is used to deploy, query, and maintain consistent configurations across a set of VM instances .
VPC networks
Load balancing and scaling
Regions and zones
Access control
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Compute Engine access control options
An overview of the different ways you can configure access for your users or instances that need to manage your Compute Engine resources.
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Compute Engine IAM roles
Learn more about using IAM roles with Compute Engine.
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Compute Engine IAM permissions
Learn more about using IAM permissions with Compute Engine.
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Service accounts
An overview of service accounts, access scopes, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles that apply to service accounts.
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OS Login
Get an overview of how OS Login works, and review the benefits of using OS Login to manage access to your VM instances.