Easily create and run online VMs on high-performance, reliable cloud infrastructure. Choose from preset or custom machine types for web servers, databases, AI, and more.
Get one e2-micro VM instance free per month. New customers also get $300 in free credits to try Compute Engine and other Google Cloud products.
Features
Preset and custom configurations Industry-leading reliabilityCompute Engine offers the best single instance compute availability SLA of any cloud provider: 99.95% availability for memory-optimized VMs and 99.9% for all other VM families.
Is downtime keeping you up at night? Maintain workload continuity during planned and unplanned events with live migration. When a VM goes down, Compute Engine performs a live migration to another host in the same zone.
Automations and recommendations for resource efficiencyAutomatically add VMs to handle peak load and replace underperforming instances with managed instance groups.
Manually adjust your resources using historical data with rightsizing recommendations, or guarantee capacity for planned demand spikes with future reservations.
All of our latest compute instances (including C4A, C4, C4D, N4, C3D, X4, and Z3) run on Titanium, a system of purpose-built microcontrollers and tiered scale-out offloads to improve your infrastructure performance, life cycle management, and security.
Transparent pricing and discounting Security controls and configurationsEncrypt data-in-use and while it’s being processed with Confidential VMs.
Defend against rootkits and bootkits with Shielded VMs.
Meet stringent compliance standards for data residency, sovereignty, access, and encryption with Assured Workloads.
Workload ManagerNow available for SAP workloads, Workload Manager evaluates your application workloads by detecting deviations from documented standards and best practices to proactively prevent issues, continuously analyze workloads, and simplify system troubleshooting.
VM ManagerVM Manager is a suite of tools that can be used to manage operating systems for large virtual machine (VM) fleets running Windows and Linux on Compute Engine.
Sole-tenant nodesSole-tenant nodes are physical Compute Engine servers dedicated exclusively for your use. Sole-tenant nodes simplify deployment for bring-your-own-license (BYOL) applications. Sole-tenant nodes give you access to the same machine types and VM configuration options as regular compute instances.
TPU acceleratorsCloud TPUs can be added to accelerate machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Cloud TPUs can be reserved, used on-demand, or available as preemptible VMs.
Linux and Windows supportRun your choice of OS, including Debian, CentOS Stream, Fedora CoreOS, SUSE, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, FreeBSD, or Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. You can also use a shared image from the Google Cloud community or bring your own.
Container supportRun, manage, and orchestrate Docker containers on Compute Engine VMs with Google Kubernetes Engine.
Placement policyUse placement policy to specify the location of your underlying hardware instances. Spread placement policy provides higher reliability by placing instances on distinct hardware, reducing the impact of underlying hardware failures. Compact placement policy provides lower latency between nodes by placing instances close together within the same network infrastructure.
Choose the right VM for your workload and requirements
Optimization Workloads Our recommendationEfficient
Lowest cost per core.
General purpose E-Series
Flexible
Best price-performance for balanced and flexible workloads.
General purpose N-Series
Performance
Best performance with advanced capabilities.
General purpose C-Series
C4A, C4, C3, C3D, C4D (preview)
Compute
Highest compute per core.
Specialized H-Series
Memory
Highest memory per core.
Specialized M-Series
Storage
Highest storage per core.
Specialized Z-Series
Z3, Z3H Bare Metal (preview)
Training, inference, and HPC with GPUs
Highest performing GPUs.
Specialized A-series
Graphics and inference with GPUs
Balanced performance and efficiency GPUs.
Specialized G-series
Efficient
Lowest cost per core.
Workloads
Our recommendation
General purpose E-Series
Flexible
Best price-performance for balanced and flexible workloads.
Workloads
Our recommendation
Performance
Best performance with advanced capabilities.
Workloads
Our recommendation
Compute
Highest compute per core.
Workloads
Our recommendation
Memory
Highest memory per core.
Workloads
Our recommendation
Specialized M-Series
Storage
Highest storage per core.
Workloads
Our recommendation
Specialized Z-Series
Z3, Z3H Bare Metal (preview)
Training, inference, and HPC with GPUs
Highest performing GPUs.
Workloads
Our recommendation
Specialized A-series
Graphics and inference with GPUs
Balanced performance and efficiency GPUs.
Workloads
Our recommendation
How It Works
Compute Engine is a computing and hosting service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure, comparable to Amazon EC2 and Azure Virtual Machines. Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that lets you easily launch large compute clusters with no up-front investment.
Guides: How to get startedA quick overview of Compute Engine, and how this Google Cloud tool can help you seamlessly migrate your workloads to the Cloud
Common Uses
Create your first VM Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs Learning resourcesThree ways to get started
How to choose the right VM
With thousands of applications, each with different requirements, which VM is right for you?
Video: Choose the right VM Tutorials, quickstarts, & labsThree ways to get started
How to choose the right VM
With thousands of applications, each with different requirements, which VM is right for you?
Video: Choose the right VM Migrate and optimize enterprise applications Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs Learning resourcesThree ways to get started
Access documentation, guides, and reference architectures
Migration Center is Google Cloud's unified migration platform. With features like cloud spend estimation, asset discovery, and a variety of tooling for different migration scenarios, it provides you with what you need to get started.
Start here: Google Cloud Migration Center Tutorials, quickstarts, & labsThree ways to get started
Access documentation, guides, and reference architectures
Migration Center is Google Cloud's unified migration platform. With features like cloud spend estimation, asset discovery, and a variety of tooling for different migration scenarios, it provides you with what you need to get started.
Start here: Google Cloud Migration Center Backup and restore your applications Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs Learning resourcesExplore your options
Compute Engine offers ways to backup and restore:
Start with a tutorial, or read the detailed options in our documentation.
Documentation: Backup and restoreAccess a fully managed backup and disaster recovery service
We offer a managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralized data protection of VMs and other workloads running in Google Cloud and on-premises. It uses snapshots to incrementally backup data from your persistent disks at the instance level.
Overview: Backup and DR service Tutorials, quickstarts, & labsExplore your options
Compute Engine offers ways to backup and restore:
Start with a tutorial, or read the detailed options in our documentation.
Documentation: Backup and restore Learning resourcesAccess a fully managed backup and disaster recovery service
We offer a managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralized data protection of VMs and other workloads running in Google Cloud and on-premises. It uses snapshots to incrementally backup data from your persistent disks at the instance level.
Overview: Backup and DR service Run modern container-based applications Tutorials, quickstarts, & labsThree ways to deploy containers
Containers let you run your apps with fewer dependencies on the host virtual machine and independently from other containerized apps using the same host.
Three ways to deploy containers
Containers let you run your apps with fewer dependencies on the host virtual machine and independently from other containerized apps using the same host.
AI-optimized hardware
We designed the accelerator-optimized machine family to deliver the performance and efficiency you need for AI workloads. Start by comparing our GPUs, or learn about TPUs for large scale AI training and inference tasks.
Documentation: Accelerator-optimized VMs Learning resourcesAI-optimized hardware
We designed the accelerator-optimized machine family to deliver the performance and efficiency you need for AI workloads. Start by comparing our GPUs, or learn about TPUs for large scale AI training and inference tasks.
Documentation: Accelerator-optimized VMsPricing
How Compute Engine pricing works Compute Engine pricing varies based on your requirements for performance, storage, networking, location, and more. Services Description Price (USD)Get started free
New users get $300 in free trial credits to use within 90 days.
Free
The Compute Engine free tier gives you one e2-micro VM instance, up to 30 GB standard persistent disk storage, and up to 1 GB of outbound data transfers per month.
Free
VM instances
Pay-as-you-go
Only pay for the services you use. No up-front fees. No termination charges. Pricing varies by product and usage.
Starting at
$0.01
(e2-micro)
Encrypt data-in-use and while it’s being processed.
Starting at
$0.936
Per vCPU per month
Physical servers dedicated to your project. Pay a premium on top of the standard price (pay-as-you-go rate for selected vCPU and memory resources).
+10%
On top of standard price
Discount: Committed use
Pay less when you commit to a minimum spend in advance.
Save up to 70%
Discount: Spot VMs
Pay less when you run fault-tolerant jobs using excess Compute Engine capacity.
Save up to 91%
Discount: Sustained use
Pay less on resources that are used for more than 25% of a month (and are not receiving any other discounts).
Save up to 30%
Storage
Durable network storage devices that your virtual machine (VM) instances can access. The data on each Persistent Disk volume is distributed across several physical disks.
Starting at
$0.04
Per GB per month
The fastest persistent disk storage for Compute Engine, with configurable performance and volumes that can be dynamically resized.
Starting at
$0.125
Per GB per month
Physically attached to the server that hosts your VM.
Starting at
$0.08
Per GB per month
Networking
Leverage the public internet to carry traffic between your services and your users.
Free
Inbound transfers, always. Outbound transfers, up to 200 GB per month.
Leverage Google's premium backbone to carry traffic to and from your external users.
Starting at
$0.08
Per GB per month for outbound data transfers. Inbound transfers remain free.
How Compute Engine pricing works
Compute Engine pricing varies based on your requirements for performance, storage, networking, location, and more.
Description
Price (USD)
Free
The Compute Engine free tier gives you one e2-micro VM instance, up to 30 GB standard persistent disk storage, and up to 1 GB of outbound data transfers per month.
Description
Free
Description
Pay-as-you-go
Only pay for the services you use. No up-front fees. No termination charges. Pricing varies by product and usage.
Price (USD)
Starting at
$0.01
(e2-micro)
Description
Starting at
$0.936
Per vCPU per month
Physical servers dedicated to your project. Pay a premium on top of the standard price (pay-as-you-go rate for selected vCPU and memory resources).
Description
+10%
On top of standard price
Discount: Committed use
Pay less when you commit to a minimum spend in advance.
Description
Save up to 70%
Discount: Spot VMs
Pay less when you run fault-tolerant jobs using excess Compute Engine capacity.
Description
Save up to 91%
Discount: Sustained use
Pay less on resources that are used for more than 25% of a month (and are not receiving any other discounts).
Description
Save up to 30%
Description
Durable network storage devices that your virtual machine (VM) instances can access. The data on each Persistent Disk volume is distributed across several physical disks.
Price (USD)
Starting at
$0.04
Per GB per month
The fastest persistent disk storage for Compute Engine, with configurable performance and volumes that can be dynamically resized.
Description
Starting at
$0.125
Per GB per month
Physically attached to the server that hosts your VM.
Description
Starting at
$0.08
Per GB per month
Description
Leverage the public internet to carry traffic between your services and your users.
Price (USD)
Free
Inbound transfers, always. Outbound transfers, up to 200 GB per month.
Leverage Google's premium backbone to carry traffic to and from your external users.
Description
Starting at
$0.08
Per GB per month for outbound data transfers. Inbound transfers remain free.
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Partners & Integration
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What is Compute Engine? What can it do?Compute Engine is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product offering flexible, self-managed virtual machines (VMs) hosted on Google's infrastructure. Compute Engine includes Linux and Windows-based VMs running on KVM, local and durable storage options, and a simple REST-based API for configuration and control. The service integrates with Google Cloud technologies, such as Cloud Storage, App Engine, and BigQuery to extend beyond the basic computational capability to create more complex and sophisticated apps.
What is a virtual CPU in Compute Engine?On Compute Engine, each virtual CPU (vCPU) is implemented as a single hardware hyper-thread on one of the available CPU Platforms. On Intel Xeon processors, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology allows multiple application threads to run on each physical processor core. You configure your Compute Engine VMs with one or more of these hyper-threads as vCPUs. The machine type specifies the number of vCPUs that your instance has.
How do App Engine and Compute Engine relate to each other?We see the two as being complementary. App Engine is Google's Platform-as-a-Service offering and Compute Engine is Google's Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering. App Engine is great for running web-based apps, line of business apps, and mobile backends. Compute Engine is great for when you need more control of the underlying infrastructure. For example, you might use Compute Engine when you have highly customized business logic or you want to run your own storage system.
How does pricing and purchasing work?Compute Engine charges based on compute instance, storage, and network use. VMs are charged on a per-second basis with a one minute minimum. Storage cost is calculated based on the amount of data you store. Network cost is calculated based on the amount of data transferred between VMs that communicate with each other and with the internet. For more information, review our price sheet.
Do you offer paid support?Yes, we offer paid support for enterprise customers. For more information, contact our sales organization.
Do you offer a Service Level Agreement (SLA)? Where can I send feedback?For billing-related questions, you can send questions to the appropriate support channel.
For feature requests and bug reports, submit an issue to our issues tracker.
How can I create a project?Every project can be identified in two ways: the project number or the project ID. The project number is automatically created when you create the project, whereas the project ID is created by you, or whoever created the project. The project ID is optional for many services, but is required by Compute Engine. For more information, see Google Cloud console projects.
What steps does Google take to protect my data? How do I choose the right size for my persistent disk? Where can I request more quota for my project?By default, all Compute Engine projects have default quotas for various resource types. However, these default quotas can be increased on a per-project basis. Check your quota limits and usage in the quota page on the Google Cloud console. If you reach the limit for your resources and need more quota, make a request to increase the quota for certain resources using the IAM quotas page. You can make a request using the Edit Quotas button on the top of the page.
What kind of machine configuration (memory, RAM, CPU) can I choose for my instance?Compute Engine offers several configurations for your instance. You can also create custom configurations that match your exact instance needs. See the full list of available options on the machine types page.
If I accidentally delete my instance, can I retrieve it?No, instances that have been deleted cannot be retrieved. However, if an instance is simply stopped, you can start it again.
Do I have the option of using a regional data center in selected countries?Yes, Compute Engine offers data centers around the world. These data center options are designed to provide low latency connectivity options from those regions. For specific region information, including the geographic location of regions, see regions and zones.
How can I tell if a zone is offline? What operating systems can my instances run on? What are the available zones I can create my instance in? What if my question wasn’t answered here?Take a look at a longer list of FAQs here.
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