October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
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Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine is the equivalent of EC2 in Amazon Web Services. It allows you to manage instances of machines, networks, and storage with a simplicity that I have never seen before. One of the downsides that I found when ramping up with AWS is the fact that they have created abstractions with names that are not very intuitive: Virtual Private Cloud, Elastic Block Storage, and many more. This is not a big deal as AWS is well known in the market, but Google got the message and has named its resources in a very intuitive way, facilitating the onboarding of new people into the platform with little to no effort.
Regarding the machine types, Google Cloud Platform provides a simplified and limited set of machines when ...