Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Existing disks

Existing disks can also be attached to a new instance. To create a new disk, we can browse to the hamburger menu and go to Compute Engine | Disk. The following screenshot shows us creating a new blank disk:

Once successfully created, we can use this new disk when we deploy a new Compute Engine instance. The following screenshot shows how this would look when we click on the Existing disks tab. We can see all of the disks available to us:

We can also see, from the preceding screenshot, that we can use a snapshot of a disk as our ...