Google Compute Engine opens to the world

Grazed from Cloud Computing Intelligence.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Google announced on their official Google cloud platform blog that they will be taking the Google Compute Engine (GCE) out of beta and releasing a full-supported version with support for a wider range of Linux operating systems, including SUSE and Red Hat, as well as the ability to get upgrades and do maintenance while online, and lower prices

The Google Cloud Platform was released into beta June 2012 and has been popular with developers but it was limited in its use, by being hampered by a lack of OS support and the need to keep taking the solution down to do basic maintenance and upgrades. However those limitations didn’t put off names like Snapchat, Cooladata, Mendelics, Evite and Wix from building systems on the Compute Engine or businesses like SaltStack, Wowza, Rightscale, Qubole, Red Hat, SUSE, and Scalr producing new integrations with the Compute Engine…

Explaining on the blog, Google Platform Vice President, Ari Balogh said “Today, Google Compute Engine is Generally Available (GA), offering virtual machines that are performant, scalable, reliable, and offer industry-leading security features like encryption of data at rest. Compute Engine is available with 24/7 support and a 99.95% monthly SLA for your mission-critical workloads. We are also introducing several new features and lower prices for persistent disks and popular compute instances.”…

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