Google Brings App Engine And Cloud Datastore To Its New East Coast Region

google_south_carolina_data_center It’s only been two weeks since Google first launched some of its core Cloud Platform services in its South Carolina data center (the ‘us-east1 region’ if you want to be precise). At the time, the two most glaringly missing service in this new East Coast region was Google App Engine. But as the company announced today, App Engine is now available in this region, together with… Read More

Google Compute Engine’s Preemptible Virtual Machines Are Now Generally Available

Data centers – Google Data centers Google’s preemptible virtual machine instances for Compute Engine are now generally available.
The company launched these preemptible virtual machines (VMs) about four months ago. What makes this type of VM special is that Google can shut it down at any time but in return sells it at a significant discount of up to 70 percent.
The concept behind preemptible instances is somewhat… Read More

Google Now Lets Developers Bring Their Own Security Keys To Compute Engine

5399162987_5d0402e809_o Starting today, developers who use Google’s Compute Engine infrastructure as a service platform will be able to bring their own security keys to the service. Google argues that using these customer-supplied encryption keys, which are now in public beta, give its users more control over their data security.
By default, Google encrypts all of the data on its service with an AES-256 bit… Read More

Windows Server On Google Compute Engine Hits General Availability

Google data center It still feels like an odd combination, but Google today announced that Windows Server support on Google’s Compute Engine platform has now hit general availability. With this, Cloud Engine users are now covered by Google’s Compute Engine SLA when they run their applications on Windows Server 2012 R2 and the older Windows Server 2008 R2. Read More

Windows Server On Google Compute Engine Hits General Availability

Google data center It still feels like an odd combination, but Google today announced that Windows Server support on Google’s Compute Engine platform has now hit general availability. With this, Cloud Engine users are now covered by Google’s Compute Engine SLA when they run their applications on Windows Server 2012 R2 and the older Windows Server 2008 R2. Read More