Product overview — Cloud Compute
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Google Compute Engine
General-purpose virtual machines on Google Cloud for teams that want IaaS control while staying inside the GCP ecosystem.
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Freshness & verification
Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether Google Compute Engine is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- Teams building primarily on GCP
- Workloads that need VM-level control or custom runtimes
- Organizations that can own VM lifecycle practices
- Teams that can standardize images, patching, and scaling practices across services
- Companies that want VM compute aligned to GCP networking/IAM and project governance
Who should avoid
- You want a managed PaaS experience with minimal ops
- You prefer the simplest VPS control plane and billing
- You don’t want to own VM lifecycle/security practices
- Your app is a standard workload that fits a managed platform with fewer moving parts
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.