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  • Trust and security
    Keep your data secure and compliant
  • Open cloud
    Scale with open, flexible technology
  • Global infrastructure
    Build on the same infrastructure Google uses
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    Learn how businesses use Google Cloud
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Solutions
  • Industry Solutions
    Reduce cost, increase operational agility, and capture new market opportunities.
  • Retail
    Analytics and collaboration tools for the retail value chain.
  • Financial Services
    Computing, data management, and analytics tools for financial services.
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
    Health-specific solutions to enhance the patient experience.
  • Media and Entertainment
    Solutions for content production and distribution operations.
  • Telecommunications
    Hybrid and multi-cloud services to deploy and monetize 5G.
  • Gaming
    AI-driven solutions to build and scale games faster.
  • Manufacturing
    Migration and AI tools to optimize the manufacturing value chain.
  • Cloud Natives
    Resources and solutions for cloud-native organizations.
  • Government
    Data storage, AI, and analytics solutions for government agencies.
  • Education
    Teaching tools to provide more engaging learning experiences.
  • Small Business
    Productivity tools, website hosting, analytics, and more.
  • Energy
    Multi-cloud and hybrid solutions for energy companies.
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  • Application Modernization
    Develop and run applications anywhere, using cloud-native technologies like containers, serverless, and service mesh.
  • Anthos Hybrid and Multi-cloud
    Platform for modernizing, running, and building new apps.
  • Cloud-Native App Development
    End-to-end solution for building, deploying, and managing apps.
  • Hosting
    Services and infrastructure for building web apps and websites.
  • DevOps
    Processes and resources for implementing DevOps in your org.
  • Configuration Management
    Tools for automating and maintaining system configurations.
  • Continuous Delivery (CD)
    End-to-end automation from source to production.
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
    Fast feedback on code changes at scale.
  • Infrastructure as Code
    Automate repeatable tasks for one machine or millions.
  • Secrets Management
    Encrypt, store, manage, and audit infrastructure and application-level secrets.
  • Artificial Intelligence
    Add intelligence and efficiency to your business with AI and machine learning.
  • Build and Use AI
    Products to build and use artificial intelligence.
  • Contact Center AI
    AI model for speaking with customers and assisting human agents.
  • Document AI
    Machine learning and AI to unlock insights from your documents.
  • Cloud Talent Solution
    AI with job search and talent acquisition capabilities.
  • Business Application Platform
    Speed up the pace of innovation without coding, using APIs, apps, and automation.
  • New Business Channels Using APIs
    Attract and empower an ecosystem of developers and partners.
  • Unlocking Legacy Applications Using APIs
    Cloud services for extending and modernizing legacy apps.
  • Open Banking APIx
    Simplify and accelerate secure delivery of open banking compliant APIs.
  • Data Management
    Migrate and manage enterprise data with security, reliability, high availability, and fully managed data services.
  • Database Migration
    Guides and tools to simplify your database migration life cycle.
  • Database Modernization
    Upgrades to modernize your operational database infrastructure.
  • Google Cloud Databases
    Database services to migrate, manage, and modernize data.
  • Migrate Oracle workloads to Google Cloud
    Rehost, replatform, rewrite your Oracle workloads.
  • Open Source Databases
    Fully managed open source databases with enterprise-grade support.
  • SQL Server on Google Cloud
    Options for running SQL Server virtual machines on Google Cloud.
  • Digital Transformation
  • Accelerate business recovery and ensure a better future with solutions that enable hybrid and multi-cloud, generate intelligent insights, and keep your workers connected.
  • Business Continuity
    Proactively plan and prioritize workloads.
  • Digital Innovation
    Reimagine your operations and unlock new opportunities.
  • Operational Efficiency
    Prioritize investments and optimize costs.
  • COVID-19 Solutions
    Get work done more safely and securely.
  • COVID-19 Solutions for the Healthcare Industry
    How Google is helping healthcare meet extraordinary challenges.
  • Infrastructure Modernization
    Migrate quickly with solutions for SAP, VMware, Windows, Oracle, and other workloads.
  • VM Migration
    Discovery and analysis tools for moving to the cloud.
  • SAP on Google Cloud
    Certifications for running SAP applications and SAP HANA.
  • High Performance Computing
    Compute, storage, and networking options to support any workload.
  • Windows on Google Cloud
    Tools and partners for running Windows workloads.
  • Data Center Migration
    Migration solutions for VMs, apps, databases, and more.
  • Marketing Technology
    Tools for app hosting, real-time bidding, ad serving, and more.
  • Active Assist
    Automatic cloud resource optimization and increased security.
  • Virtual Desktops
    Remote work solutions for desktops and applications (VDI & DaaS).
  • Productivity and Collaboration
    Change the way teams work with solutions designed for humans and built for impact.
  • G Suite
    Collaboration and productivity tools for enterprises.
  • G Suite Essentials
    Secure video meetings and modern collaboration for teams.
  • Cloud Identity
    Unified platform for IT admins to manage user devices and apps.
  • Chrome Enterprise
    Chrome OS, Chrome Browser, and Chrome devices built for business.
  • Enterprise Mobility
    Solutions for IT admins to empower mobile employees.
  • Cloud Search
    Enterprise search for employees to quickly find company information.
  • Security
    Detect, investigate, and respond to online threats to help protect your business.
  • Application Security
    App protection against fraudulent activity, spam, and abuse.
  • Security Analytics and Operations
    Solution for analyzing petabytes of security telemetry.
  • BeyondCorp Remote Access
    Zero-trust access control for your internal web apps.
  • Smart Analytics
    Generate instant insights from data at any scale with a serverless, fully managed analytics platform that significantly simplifies analytics.
  • Data Warehouse Modernization
    Data warehouse to jumpstart your migration and unlock insights.
  • Stream Analytics
    Insights from ingesting, processing, and analyzing event streams.
  • Marketing Analytics
    Solutions for collecting, analyzing, and activating customer data.
  • Data Lake Modernization
    Services for building and modernizing your data lake.
  • Business Intelligence
    Data analytics tools for collecting, analyzing, and activating BI.
Products
  • Featured Products
  • Compute Engine
    Virtual machines running in Google’s data center.
  • Cloud Storage
    Object storage that’s secure, durable, and scalable.
  • Cloud SDK
    Command-line tools and libraries for Google Cloud.
  • Cloud SQL
    Relational database services for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL server.
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
    Managed environment for running containerized apps.
  • BigQuery
    Data warehouse for business agility and insights.
  • Cloud CDN
    Content delivery network for delivering web and video.
  • Dataflow
    Streaming analytics for stream and batch processing.
  • Operations
    Monitoring, logging, and application performance suite.
  • Cloud Run
    Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.
  • Cloud Functions
    Event-driven compute platform for cloud services and apps.
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  • Compute
  • Compute Engine
    Virtual machines running in Google’s data center.
  • App Engine
    Serverless application platform for apps and back ends.
  • Cloud GPUs
    GPUs for ML, scientific computing, and 3D visualization.
  • Migrate for Compute Engine
    Server and virtual machine migration to Compute Engine.
  • Preemptible VMs
    Compute instances for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads.
  • Shielded VMs
    Reinforced virtual machines on Google Cloud.
  • Sole-Tenant Nodes
    Dedicated hardware for compliance, licensing, and management.
  • Bare Metal
    Infrastructure to run specialized workloads on Google Cloud.
  • Recommender
    Usage recommendations for Google Cloud products and services.
  • VMware Engine
    Migrate and run your VMware workloads natively on Google Cloud.
  • Cloud Run
    Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.
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  • Storage
  • Cloud Storage
    Object storage that’s secure, durable, and scalable.
  • Filestore
    File storage that is highly scalable and secure.
  • Persistent Disk
    Block storage for virtual machine instances running on Google Cloud.
  • Cloud Storage for Firebase
    Object storage for storing and serving user-generated content.
  • Local SSD
    Block storage that is locally attached for high-performance needs.
  • Archival Storage
    Data archive that offers online access speed at ultra low cost.
  • Cloud Data Transfer
    Tools and services for transferring your data to Google Cloud.
  • G Suite Essentials
    Secure video meetings and modern collaboration for teams.
  • Databases
  • Cloud Bigtable
    NoSQL wide-column database for storing big data with low latency.
  • Firestore
    NoSQL document database for mobile and web application data.
  • Memorystore
    In-memory data store service for Redis for fast data processing.
  • Cloud Spanner
    Relational database management system for database administration.
  • Cloud SQL
    Relational database services for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL server.
  • Firebase Realtime Database
    NoSQL cloud database for storing and syncing data in real time.
  • Networking
  • Cloud Armor
    Security policies and defense against web and DDoS attacks.
  • Cloud CDN
    Content delivery network for serving web and video content.
  • Cloud DNS
    Domain name system for reliable and low-latency name lookups.
  • Cloud Load Balancing
    Service for distributing traffic across applications and regions.
  • Cloud NAT
    NAT service for giving private instances internet access.
  • Hybrid Connectivity
    Connectivity options for VPN, peering, and enterprise needs.
  • Network Intelligence Center
    Network monitoring, verification, and optimization platform.
  • Network Service Tiers
    Cloud network options based on performance, availability, and cost.
  • Network Telemetry
    VPC flow logs for network monitoring, forensics, and security.
  • Traffic Director
    Traffic control pane and management for open service mesh.
  • Virtual Private Cloud
    Virtual network for Google Cloud resources and cloud-based services.
  • Service Directory
    Platform for discovering, publishing, and connecting services.
  • Operations
  • Cloud Logging
    Google Cloud audit, platform, and application logs management.
  • Cloud Monitoring
    Infrastructure and application health with rich metrics.
  • Error Reporting
    Application error identification and analysis.
  • Kubernetes Engine Monitoring
    GKE app development and troubleshooting.
  • Service Monitoring
    SLO monitoring and alerting.
  • Cloud Trace
    Tracing system collecting latency data from applications.
  • Cloud Profiler
    CPU and heap profiler for analyzing application performance.
  • Cloud Debugger
    Real-time application state inspection and in-production debugging.
  • Transparent Service Level Indicators
    SLIs for monitoring Google Cloud services and their effects on your workloads.
  • Developer Tools
  • Cloud SDK
    Command line tools and libraries for Google Cloud.
  • Container Registry
    Private Docker storage for container images on Google Cloud.
  • Cloud Build
    Continuous integration and continuous delivery platform.
  • Cloud Source Repositories
    Private Git repository to store, manage, and track code.
  • Cloud Scheduler
    Cron job scheduler for task automation and management.
  • Tekton
    Kubernetes-native resources for declaring CI/CD pipelines.
  • Cloud Tasks
    Task management service for asynchronous task execution.
  • Cloud Code
    IDE support to write, run, and debug Kubernetes applications.
  • Tools for Visual Studio
    Tools to enable development in Visual Studio on Google Cloud.
  • Tools for Eclipse
    Plugin for Google Cloud development inside the Eclipse IDE.
  • Cloud Code for IntelliJ
    IDE support for debugging production cloud apps inside IntelliJ.
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  • Data Analytics
  • BigQuery
    Data warehouse for business agility and insights.
  • Looker
    Platform for BI, data applications, and embedded analytics.
  • Dataflow
    Streaming analytics for stream and batch processing.
  • Pub/Sub
    Messaging service for event ingestion and delivery.
  • Dataproc
    Service for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop clusters.
  • Cloud Data Fusion
    Data integration for building and managing data pipelines.
  • Cloud Composer
    Workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow.
  • Data Catalog
    Metadata service for discovering, understanding and managing data.
  • Dataprep
    Service to prepare data for analysis and machine learning.
  • Google Data Studio
    Interactive data suite for dashboarding, reporting, and analytics.
  • Google Marketing Platform
    Marketing platform unifying advertising and analytics.
  • Cloud Life Sciences
    Tools for managing, processing, and transforming biomedical data.
  • AI and Machine Learning
  • Speech-to-Text
    Speech recognition and transcription supporting 125 languages.
  • Vision AI
    Custom and pre-trained models to detect emotion, text, more.
  • Text-to-Speech
    Speech synthesis in 220+ voices and 40+ languages.
  • Cloud Translation
    Language detection, translation, and glossary support.
  • Cloud Natural Language
    Sentiment analysis and classification of unstructured text.
  • AutoML
    Custom machine learning model training and development.
  • AI Platform
    Platform for training, hosting, and managing ML models.
  • Video AI
    Video classification and recognition using machine learning.
  • Cloud TPU
    Tensor processing units for machine learning applications.
  • Dialogflow
    Conversation applications and systems development suite.
  • AutoML Tables
    Service for training ML models with structured data.
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  • API Management
  • Apigee API Platform
    API management, development, and security platform.
  • Analyze APIs
    Dashboards, custom reports, and metrics for API performance.
  • Monetize APIs
    Revenue stream and business model creation from APIs.
  • Apigee Hybrid
    Deployment option for managing APIs on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Apigee Sense
    Intelligent behavior detection to protect APIs.
  • Cloud Endpoints
    Deployment and development management for APIs on Google Cloud.
  • Developer Portal
    Self-service and custom developer portal creation.
  • Apigee Healthcare APIx
    FHIR API-based digital service formation.
  • Apigee Open Banking APIx
    Open banking and PSD2-compliant API delivery.
  • Cloud Healthcare API
    Solution to bridge existing care systems and apps on Google Cloud.
  • AppSheet
    No-code development platform to build and extend applications.
  • Hybrid and Multi-cloud
  • Anthos
    Platform for modernizing existing apps and building new ones.
  • Cloud Run for Anthos
    Integration that provides a serverless development platform on GKE.
  • Google Cloud Marketplace for Anthos
    Containerized apps with prebuilt deployment and unified billing.
  • Migrate for Anthos
    Tool to move workloads and existing applications to GKE.
  • Operations
    Monitoring, logging, and application performance suite.
  • Cloud Build
    Service for executing builds on Google Cloud infrastructure.
  • Traffic Director
    Traffic control pane and management for open service mesh.
  • Apigee API Management
    API management, development, and security platform.
  • Migration
  • BigQuery Data Transfer Service
    Data import service for scheduling and moving data into BigQuery.
  • Cloud Data Transfer
    Tools and services for transferring your data to Google Cloud.
  • Cloud Foundation Toolkit
    Reference templates for Deployment Manager and Terraform.
  • Transfer Service
    Data transfers from online and on-premises sources to Cloud Storage.
  • Migrate for Anthos
    Components for migrating VMs into system containers on GKE.
  • Migrate for Compute Engine
    Components for migrating VMs and physical servers to Compute Engine.
  • Transfer Appliance
    Storage server for moving large volumes of data to Google Cloud.
  • VM Migration
    VM migration to the cloud for low-cost refresh cycles.
  • Security and Identity
  • Cloud IAM
    Permissions management system for Google Cloud resources.
  • Assured Workloads
    Compliance and security controls for sensitive workloads.
  • Cloud Key Management Service
    KMS for creating, importing, and managing cryptographic keys.
  • Confidential Computing
    Encrypt data in use with Confidential VMs.
  • Security Command Center
    Platform for defending against threats to your Google Cloud assets.
  • Cloud Data Loss Prevention
    Sensitive data inspection, classification, and redaction platform.
  • Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
    Hardened service running Microsoft® Active Directory (AD).
  • Access Transparency
    Cloud provider visibility through near real-time logs.
  • Titan Security Key
    Two-factor authentication device for user account protection.
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  • Serverless Computing
  • Cloud Run
    Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.
  • Cloud Functions
    Platform for creating functions that respond to cloud events.
  • App Engine
    Serverless application platform for apps and back ends.
  • Containers
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
    Managed environment for running containerized apps.
  • Container Registry
    Registry for storing, managing, and securing Docker images.
  • Container Security
    Container environment security for each stage of the life cycle.
  • Container Options
    Environments and services to run containers on Google Cloud.
  • Cloud Build
    Solution for running build steps in a Docker container.
  • Deep Learning Containers
    Containers with data science frameworks, libraries, and tools.
  • Kubernetes Applications
    Containerized apps with prebuilt deployment and unified billing.
  • Artifact Registry
    Package manager for build artifacts and dependencies.
  • Knative
    Components to create Kubernetes-native cloud-based software.
  • Cloud Run
    Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.
  • Cloud Code
    IDE support to write, run, and debug Kubernetes applications.
  • Internet of Things
  • Cloud IoT Core
    IoT device management, integration, and connection service.
  • Edge TPU
    ASIC designed to run ML inference and AI at the edge.
  • Management Tools
  • Cloud Shell
    Interactive shell environment with a built-in command line.
  • Cloud Console
    Web-based interface for managing and monitoring cloud apps.
  • Cloud Deployment Manager
    Service for creating and managing Google Cloud resources.
  • Cloud Mobile App
    App to manage Google Cloud services from your mobile device.
  • Cloud APIs
    Programmatic interfaces for Google Cloud services.
  • Private Catalog
    Service catalog for admins managing internal enterprise solutions.
  • Cost Management
    Tools for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing your costs.
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Apigee Healthcare APIx
    FHIR API-based digital service production.
  • Cloud Healthcare API
    Solution for bridging existing care systems and apps on Google Cloud.
  • Cloud Life Sciences
    Tools for managing, processing, and transforming biomedical data.
  • Media and Gaming
  • Game Servers
    Game server management service running on Google Kubernetes Engine.
  • Zync Render
    Platform for 3D modeling and rendering on Google Cloud infrastructure.
  • Anvato
    Media content platform for OTT services and video streaming.
  • OpenCue
    Open source render manager for visual effects and animation.
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  • Compute Engine
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  • Quickstarts
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  • Using a Linux VM
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  • How-to guides
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  • Creating VM instances
    • Creating and starting a VM instance
    • Creating and starting a preemptible VM instance
    • Using sole-tenant nodes
      • Provisioning VMs on sole-tenant nodes
      • Bringing your own licenses
      • Analyzing sole-tenant node usage
      • Autoscaling node groups
      • Overcommitting CPUs on sole-tenant VMs
      • Updating VM tenancy
      • FAQs
        • Bringing your own licenses FAQ
        • Sole-tenancy accounting FAQ
    • Creating customized boot disks
    • Detaching and reattaching boot disks
    • Creating Windows instances
      • Creating and managing Windows Server instances
      • Creating passwords for Windows instances
      • Creating a Windows persistent disk snapshot
      • Creating a Windows image
      • Automating Windows password generation
      • Using existing Microsoft application licenses
    • Creating SQL Server instances
    • Creating a VM instance with a custom machine type
    • Creating a VM instance from an instance template
    • Creating a VM instance from an existing instance
    • Creating a VM instance with a custom hostname
    • Creating instances that use the Compute Engine virtual network interface
    • Enabling virtual displays
  • Connecting to VM instances
    • Connecting to instances
    • Connecting to instances using advanced methods
    • Transferring files to instances
  • Managing access to VM instances
    • Choosing an access method
    • Setting up OS Login
    • Setting up OS Login with 2-step verification
    • Managing OS Login in an organization
    • Troubleshooting OS Login
    • Managing SSH keys in metadata
  • Managing storage
    • Adding or resizing zonal persistent disks
    • Adding or resizing regional persistent disks
    • Adding local SSDs
    • Connecting to Cloud Storage buckets
    • Reviewing persistent disk performance metrics
    • Mounting in-memory RAM disks
    • Optimizing persistent disk performance
    • Optimizing local SSD performance
    • Viewing and applying idle persistent disk recommendations
  • Backing up persistent disks using snapshots
    • Creating persistent disk snapshots
    • Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk
    • Restoring and deleting disk snapshots
    • Best practices for persistent disk snapshots
  • Working with machine images
    • Creating machine images
    • Creating instances from machine images
  • Creating and managing custom images
    • Creating, deleting, and deprecating custom images
    • Managing access to custom images
    • Setting up trusted image policies
    • Building custom operating systems
    • Exporting a custom image to Cloud Storage
    • Creating an image from an ISO file
  • Importing custom images and VM instances
    • Choosing an import method
    • Importing virtual disks
    • Importing virtual appliances
    • Manually import and configure virtual disks
      • Manually import virtual disks
      • Manually configure imported disks
  • Managing your instances
    • Stopping and starting an instance
    • Suspending and resuming an instance
    • Deleting an instance
    • Viewing source image
    • Preventing accidental VM deletion
    • Moving an instance between zones
    • Viewing and applying idle VM recommendations
    • Applying machine type sizing recommendations for VMs
    • Changing the machine type of a stopped instance
    • Specifying a minimum CPU platform for VM instances
    • Creating and enabling service accounts for instances
    • Setting instance availability policies
    • Storing and retrieving instance metadata
    • Migrating to v1 metadata server
    • Modifying Shielded VM options
    • Monitoring integrity on Shielded VMs
    • Installing the guest environment
    • Running startup scripts
    • Running shutdown scripts
    • Viewing serial port output
    • Interacting with the serial console
    • Defining instance placement policies
    • Viewing referrers to VM instances
    • Collecting diagnostic information
    • Capturing VM screenshots
    • Performing other tasks with your instances
  • Creating and managing instance templates
    • Creating instance templates
    • Deterministic instance templates
    • Getting, listing, and deleting instance templates
  • Creating and managing groups of instances
    • Managed instance groups (MIGs)
      • Creating groups of managed instances (MIGs)
      • Working with managed instances
      • Getting info about MIGs and managed instances
      • Autohealing instances in MIGs
      • Distributing instances by using regional MIGs
      • Adding an instance group to a load balancer
      • Updating MIGs
        • Rolling out updates to MIGs
        • Performing one-click OS image upgrades
      • Applying instance sizing recommendations for MIGs
    • Supporting stateful workloads with MIGs
      • Stateful MIGs
      • Configuring stateful MIGs
        • Overview
        • Configuring stateful persistent disks
        • Configuring stateful metadata
        • Applying, viewing, and removing stateful configuration
      • How stateful MIGs work
      • How operations affect preserved state
    • Creating groups of unmanaged instances
  • Networking
    • Virtual private cloud
    • Configuring IP addresses
      • Locating IP addresses for an instance
      • Reserving a static external IP address
      • Reserving a static internal IP address
    • Using protocol forwarding
    • Creating a PTR record for a VM instance
  • Deploying containers
    • Deploying containers on VMs and managed instance groups
    • Configuring options to run your container
  • Scaling your application
    • Cloud CDN
    • Load balancing
    • Autoscaling groups of instances
      • Overview
      • Scaling based on CPU utilization
      • Scaling based on load balancing serving capacity
      • Scaling based on Cloud Monitoring metrics
      • Using multiple policies
      • Understanding autoscaler decisions
      • Viewing autoscaler logs
      • Managing autoscalers
  • Managing compute accelerators
    • Managing TPUs
    • Adding or removing GPUs
    • Creating groups of GPU instances using instance templates
    • Installing GPU drivers
    • Installing GRID drivers for virtual workstations
      • Installing GRID drivers for virtual workstations
      • GRID drivers for virtual workstations
    • Monitoring GPU performance
    • Optimizing GPU performance
    • Handling GPU host maintenance events
  • Managing operating systems
    • Setting up OS Config
    • Viewing operating system details
    • Creating and managing patch jobs
      • Creating patch jobs
      • Managing patch jobs
      • Scheduling patch jobs
    • Working with guest policies
      • Creating a guest policy
      • Managing guest policies
    • Viewing OS Config audit logs
  • Monitoring activity
    • Viewing audit logs
    • Migrating from activity logs to audit logs
    • Viewing activity logs
    • Viewing usage reports
  • Naming resources
  • Labeling resources
  • Managing access to Compute Engine resources
  • Working with regions and zones
    • Viewing available regions and zones
    • Changing the default region or zone
  • Migrating VMs to Compute Engine
    • Overview
    • Migrating VMs using Migrate for Compute Engine
  • Advanced VM configurations
    • Enabling nested virtualization for VM instances
    • Encrypting disks with customer-supplied encryption keys
    • Encrypting disks with customer-managed encryption keys
    • Sending email from an instance
      • Overview
      • Sending email with SendGrid
      • Sending email with Mailgun
      • Sending email with Mailjet
    • Automated image builds with Jenkins, Packer, and Kubernetes
  • Best practices
    • Designing robust systems
    • Securely connecting to VM instances
    • Verifying VM identity
    • Best practices for SQL Server instances
    • Image management best practices
    • Image families best practices
    • Optimizing app latency with load balancing
    • Best practices for floating IP addresses
    • Best practices for disk snapshots
  • Concepts
  • All concepts
  • Virtual machine instances
    • Overview
    • Instance life cycle
    • Machine types
    • CPU platforms
    • GPUs on Compute Engine
    • Guest environment
    • Live migration
    • Preemptible VM instances
    • Shielded VM
  • Images
    • Overview
    • Feature support by operating system
  • Instance templates
  • Instance groups
  • Machine images
  • Windows on Compute Engine
  • Sole-tenant nodes
  • Storage
    • Storage options
    • Block storage performance
    • Regional persistent disks for high availability services
  • Operating systems management
    • OS inventory management
    • OS patch management
    • OS configuration management
  • Networking
    • Virtual Private Cloud
    • IP addresses
    • Internal DNS
  • Load balancing and scaling
  • Regions and zones
    • Overview
    • Global, regional, and zonal resources
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