Google its Compute Engine from the test phase are taken and makes the leading virtualization platform for everyone. The platform can be in contrast to the b lwa tafase any Linux distribution running, in addition to other kernels and software as FreeBSD. Also lowers Google the prices.
During the previewperiode supported the Compute Engine only Debian and CentOS with a Google-built kernel. Not all software are turned here, however, because some applications specific kernels or file systems require. Now Google the Generally Available-stamped on the platform paste, is also the support for operating systems expanded.
Ari Balogh, vice-president of the department of Storage Infrastructure Products, today announced that the Compute Engine is now all ready-made Linux distributions supports, including SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SELinux, and Core OS. Also is there support for FreeBSD and the service, according to Balogh all the kernels and software to freely rotate, where the ceo refers to projects such as Docker, FOG, xfs and aufs.
The Compute Engine will get as part of a Limited Preview trial offer three new instance types. The most powerful of them has sixteen cores and 104GB of ram. At the same time is the maximum of the i/o capacity of Googles largest persistent disk volumes increased by 700 percent and the cost per GB with 60 percent.
Google also adds functionality that the transparent maintenance calls to his offer. This refers to Google in the implementation of infrastructure updates without downtime or reboots. Also promises Google the virtual machines in case of problems automatically to reboot to get them within a few minutes online to get.
To Amazons EC2 service and Microsoft’s Azure, to better compete with Google has finally, the prices of the most popular instances by 10 percent. The Compute Engine has a year and a half in beta rotated. Google is relatively late with its infrastructure as a service; Amazon introduced EC2-seven years ago, and Microsoft came in 2003 with Azure.