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Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about compute-related products, capabilities, and procedures.
Training, blog articles, and more
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Compute products by use case
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Virtual machines
Create a VM.
Compute Engine
Configure and deploy scalable, high-performance virtual machine (VM) instances and instance groups.
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.
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.
Related products, guides, and sites
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.
Shielded VM
VMs on Google Cloud hardened by a set of security controls that help defend against rootkits and bootkits.
Confidential VM
A type of virtual machine that enables enhanced performance and security for high-memory workloads using AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).
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Last updated 2025-12-15 UTC.
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