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Explore compute in Google Cloud

Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about compute-related products, capabilities, and procedures.

Google Cloud deployment archetypes

Learn about the six deployment archetypes, including the use cases and design considerations for each deployment archetype.open_in_new

Optimize resource usage

Recommendations to help you plan and provision resources to match the requirements and consumption patterns of your cloud workloads.open_in_new

Google Cloud Architecture Framework: Performance optimization

Recommendations to optimize the performance of workloads in Google Cloud.open_in_new

Training, blog articles, and more

Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources.

Google Cloud computing foundations

Study cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.open_in_new

Hosting applications on Google Cloud

Learn about the wide range of options for hosting applications on Google Cloud.open_in_new

Compute technology products by use case

Expand sections or use the filter to find products and guides for typical use cases.

Virtual machines

Create a VM.

Compute Engine

Configure and deploy scalable, high-performance virtual machine (VM) instances and instance groups.

Create and start a VM instance

Create a virtual machine (VM) instance by using a boot disk image, a boot disk snapshot, or a container image.

Capacity Planner

Get visibility into your project's use of virtual machine (VM) instance resources.

Regions and zones

Compute Engine resources are hosted in multiple locations worldwide. These locations are composed of regions and zones.

Images

OS images for virtual machines.

OS images

Use operating system (OS) images to create boot disks for your virtual machine (VM) instances.

Operating system details

Learn general operating system (OS) details and feature support for the OS images that are available on Compute Engine.

Container-Optimized OS

Bring up your Docker containers on Google Cloud quickly, efficiently, and securely.

Deep Learning VM Images

Deploy VM images that are optimized for data science and ML tasks.

Block storage

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Local SSD

Provide always-encrypted solid-state storage for Compute Engine VMs.

Persistent Disk

Use durable network storage devices that your virtual machine (VM) instances can access like physical disks in a desktop or a server.

Hyperdisk

Use scalable, high-performance storage service with a comprehensive suite of data persistence and management capabilities.

Confidential computing

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Confidential VM

A type of virtual machine that enables enhanced performance and security for high-memory workloads using AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).

Migration

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Google Cloud Migration Center

Unified platform that helps you accelerate your end-to-end cloud journey from your current on-premises or cloud environments to Google Cloud.

Migrate to Virtual Machines

Migrate servers and VMs from on-premises or another cloud to Compute Engine.

Migrate to Containers

Migrate VMs from on-premises or other clouds directly into containers in GKE.

Mainframe Assessment Tool

Assess your mainframe workloads and generate codebase documentation with generative AI.

Mainframe Connector

Move your mainframe data to Google Cloud.

Dual Run

Simultaneously run workloads on your mainframe and on Google Cloud, and compare their outputs.

Workloads

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AI Hypercomputer

A supercomputer architecture that employs systems-level codesign to boost efficiency and productivity across AI training, tuning, and serving.

Batch

Schedule, queue, and execute batch jobs at scale with a fully managed batch service on Google Cloud.

Cloud GPUs

Add GPUs to your workloads for machine learning, scientific computing, and 3D visualization.

Machine family and series recommendations

Learn the machine families, machine series, and machine types that you can choose from to create a virtual machine (VM) instance.

Google Cloud VMware Engine

Migrate and run your VMware workloads natively on Google Cloud.

SAP on Google Cloud

Leverage your SAP data in innovative ways, all while running your SAP applications more reliably, securely, and cost-effectively.

Workload Manager

End-to-end solutions to manage your SAP and Microsoft SQL Server workloads running on Google Cloud.

Cluster Toolkit

Deploy high performance computing (HPC) environments on Google Cloud.

Cloud Networking for VMs

Learn how to manage the network your VMs belong to.

Identity and Access Management

Set up permissions uses IAM roles to control access to your VMs.

Cloud Storage

Store objects with global edge caching.