COMPUTE ENGINE OF GOOGLE CLOUD

Google, I think all over the world, this word is known to everybody. This is not just the word this is everything nowadays. You are using Google on Mobiles, on laptops, ipads, iphones, everywhere. We all are familiar with Google search engine, GMail, You tube, etc which have become a part of our life. But did anybody think that what is the base of running Google search engine, GMail, You tube and other services. The answer for the question is  GCE(Google Compute Engine. GCE is actually the infrastructure as a service component of GCP(Google Cloud Platform) which is built on global infrastructure that runs all the services of Google like GMail, Youtube, etc. The main point here to notice that GCE enables the clients or users to launch virtual machines on demand. 

Following are the unique features of compute engine 

(Source:https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2016/05/09/five-unique-features-of-google-compute-engine-that-no-iaas-provider-could-match/#1f099eb53441):

• Sustained Usage Discounts
• Pre-emptible VMs
• Custom VM Sizes
• Online Disk Resizing
• Shared Storage.

The usefulness of compute engine is that it allows clients or users to use powerful virtual machines in a cloud as the server resources, instead of acquiring and managing a hardware. 

So summarizing this, Compute Engine can help to create and run thousands of virtual machine(vCPUs) on a single system that too providing scaling, and consistent performance.

For complete documentation on Google compute engine prefer the site:  https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs