Présentation de Compute Engine

Compute Engine is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) product that offers self-managed virtual machine (VM) instances and bare metal instances. Compute Engine offers VMs with a KVM hypervisor, operating systems for both Linux and Windows, local and durable storage options, and a REST-based API for configuration and control.

Here are some of the benefits of using Compute Engine:

  • Extensibilité : Compute Engine s'intègre aux technologies Google Cloud telles que Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine et BigQuery. Il va au-delà de la simple capacité de calcul pour permettre de créer des applications complexes et sophistiquées.
  • Scalability: Scale the number of compute resources as needed without having to manage your own infrastructure. This is useful for businesses that experience sudden increases in traffic, because you can quickly add more instances to handle the increase and remove the instances after they are no longer needed.
  • Reliability: Google's infrastructure is highly reliable, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
  • Rentabilité : Compute Engine propose différentes options de tarification adaptées à votre budget. De plus, vous ne payez que pour les ressources que vous utilisez, et il n'y a pas de frais initiaux.

What Compute Engine provides

Compute Engine provides flexibility so that you can run a wide-range of applications and workloads that support your needs. From batch processing to webserving or high performance computing you can configure Compute Engine to meet your needs.

Votre position

Google offers worldwide regions for you to deploy Compute Engine resources. You can choose a region that best fits the requirements of your workload:

  • Les restrictions spécifiques à la région
  • La latence côté utilisateur par région
  • Les exigences de votre application en matière de latence
  • Le niveau de contrôle sur la latence
  • L'équilibre entre faible latence et simplicité

Pour plus d'informations sur les régions et les zones, consultez la page Régions et zones.

Types de machines Compute Engine

Compute Engine provides a comprehensive set of machine families, each containing machine types to choose from when you create a compute instance. Each machine family is comprised of machine series and predefined machine types within each series.

Compute Engine offers general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, and accelerator-optimized machine families. If a preconfigured, general-purpose machine type doesn't meet your needs, you can create a custom machine type for some of the machine series.

For more information, see the Machine families resource guide.

Systèmes d'exploitation

Compute Engine fournit de nombreuses images de système d'exploitation publiques préconfigurées pour Linux et Windows. La plupart des images publiques sont fournies sans frais supplémentaires, mais certaines images premium sont facturées. L'importation d'images personnalisées n'est pas facturée, mais vous devrez payer des frais de stockage d'images tant que vous conservez l'image personnalisée dans votre projet.

Options de stockage

You can choose from several block storage options, including Persistent Disk, Google Cloud Hyperdisk, and Local SSD:

  • Persistent Disk : stockage réseau redondant et à hautes performances. Chaque volume est réparti sur des centaines de disques physiques.
  • Hyperdisk: The fastest redundant network storage for Compute Engine, with configurable performance and volumes that can be resized dynamically. Each volume is striped across hundreds of physical disks
  • Local SSDs: Physical drives that are attached directly to the same server as a VM. They offer better performance, but are are not durable. If the instance is shut down, the Local SSD disks are deleted.

Each option has unique price and performance. For cost comparisons, see disk pricing. For more information about disk types, see Storage options.

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