With its Google Compute Engine launched Thursday, Google is offering an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) cloud for running Linux virtual machines on the same infrastructure that powers the ...

Google has entered the busy 'Infrastructure as a service' (IaaS) arena today with its new Google Compute Engine service. The cloud service, which Google describes as in a 'Limited Preview Release ...

Google is bringing Debian to Google Compute Engine and is making it the default OS for developers using the service. Google will support both Debian 6.0 and 7.0, which was released this week.

Google sells its machines by the Google Compute Engine Unit (GCEU), which it estimates is about a 1GHz to 1.2GHz Opteron from 2007. All of Google’s machines rent for 5.3 cents per GCEU per hour ...

Google also added several upgrades to the Compute Engine, which the search giant introduced in June 2012 as a competitor to Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’) cloud computing service and other ...

Google rolled out two new zones and simplified access to a major security protocol this week in an effort to improve the experience of developers using its public cloud platform Compute Engine ...

ISO 27001:2005 international security certification for Compute Engine, Google App Engine, and Google Cloud Storage Compute Engine's billing policies have also been slightly revised.

Google entered the cloud computing game back in 2008, when it unveiled Google App Engine, a service that lets outside software developers build and host applications atop the same sweeping ...

Dubbed Google Compute Engine, the new service is a direct rival to Amazon Web Services. According to Engadget , Google is promising “50 percent more computes per dollar” than its rivals ...

Google has made its Google Compute Engine generally available, ... meaning Google's cloud computing customers get pricing credits if downtime exceeds 0.05% — or just a few minutes per month.