Virtual machines on Google Compute Engine (GCE)

The fundamental resource of Compute Engine is (no surprise) virtual machines, generally referred to as Compute Engine instances. Compute Engine instances are composed of several components, including the following:

• A boot disk created from an image or snapshot
• Compute resources, including vCPU and RAM
• Additional persistent storage
• Network interfaces
• GPUs and local SSDs

Machine types

Virtual machines on Compute Engine are available in a number of configurations, known as machine types. Machine types can be categorized by use case as well as scale, where use case determines relative resource allocations (for example, more memory than vCPU), and scale represents total resource...