What is Compute Engine?

Key Takeaways

what if you could rent some of the world's most powerful computers from Google cloud data centers for your own virtual machines well you can basically do exactly that Google Cloud compute engine allows you to create and run virtual machines on Google's infrastructure need more reasons to use it you can scale up or down as needed and you only pay for what you use you can use whatever operating system you prefer and benefit from Google's Network hardware and security and again you only pay for what you use and compute engine is built for global scale if you're looking to host websites or create testing and development environments or process Mass amounts of data then compute engine is the answer maybe you're trying to get crazy with your workloads or pull off some scientific simulations or even run machine learning models well compute engine has you covered there as well not to mention when disaster strikes you'll be prepared because you can replicate your on premises workloads to compute engine for disaster recovery okay by now you're probably ready to use compute engine and you can learn all about it by enrolling in the essential Google Cloud infrastructure Foundation course we've included a link in the description so you can get started