Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the public cloud of Google. It sells virtual machines, storage and networking billed by usage, alongside data and AI services, to organisations of all sizes. Its locations page states 43 regions and 130 zones.

The core infrastructure product is Compute Engine. Virtual machines come in several families: efficient and general-purpose (E, N and C series), compute-optimised, memory-optimised, storage-optimised and accelerator-optimised machines with GPUs or TPUs. Customers can also define a custom machine type of 1 to 96 vCPUs with up to 8 GB of memory per core. Storage options include Persistent Disk block storage and Local SSD. Supported operating systems include Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, FreeBSD and Windows Server, and customers can bring their own images. Sole-tenant nodes give dedicated physical servers, Confidential and Shielded VMs add security controls, and Spot VMs and committed-use discounts are the main ways to lower cost. Google Kubernetes Engine runs containers on these machines.

No prices are shown on the locations page. Pricing depends on the service, machine size and region, and is published on Google Cloud's pricing pages and calculator. Data and AI services are billed by their own units.