Compute Engine documentation
Compute Engine is a computing and hosting service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that lets you easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments, and you can run thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that offers quick, consistent performance.
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VM migration: planning
Learn how to plan a VM migration and deploy your basic infrastructure on Google Cloud.
A tour of Cloud Networking
Get an overview of Google Cloud networking building blocks.
Interactive walkthrough: Create a Linux VM in Compute Engine
Create a Linux VM by using a tutorial that walks you through the steps directly in the Cloud console.
Hosting a web app on Compute Engine hands-on lab
Learn how to deploy and scale a sample application.
VM migration
Migrate for Compute Engine allows you to easily migrate VMs from your on-premises data center, AWS, or Azure into Compute Engine. You validate, run, and migrate applications into Google Cloud without rewriting them, modifying the image, or changing management processes.
Patterns for scalable and resilient apps
Learn patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential goals of many modern architecture exercises. A well-designed app scales up and down as demand increases and decreases, and is resilient enough to withstand service disruptions.
Strategies to migrate IBM Db2 to Compute Engine
Learn best practices for a homogeneous Db2 migration to Compute Engine. This document is intended for database admins, system admins and software, database, and ops engineers who are migrating Db2 environments to Google Cloud.
Node.js samples
A set of Node.js Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.
Python samples
A set of Python Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.
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Last updated 2025-12-15 UTC.