{"id":658214,"date":"2013-05-15T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=230254"},"modified":"2013-05-15T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:21:42","slug":"google-compute-engine-availability-opened-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658214","title":{"rendered":"Google Compute Engine Availability Opened Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at Google I\/O, Google unveiled Compute Engine. Today, the company announced they&#8217;re making it available for anyone to start using.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also adding the following new features:<br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sub-hour billing<\/strong>\u00a0charges for instances in one-minute increments with a ten-minute minimum, so you don\u2019t pay for compute minutes that you don\u2019t use<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shared-core instances<\/strong>\u00a0provide smaller instance shapes for low-intensity workloads<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advanced Routing<\/strong>\u00a0features help you create gateways and VPN servers, and enable you to build applications that span your local network and Google\u2019s cloud<\/li>\n<li>Large\u00a0<strong>persistent disks<\/strong>\u00a0support up to 10 terabytes per volume, which translates to 10X the industry standard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In somewhat related news, Google has also made App Engine 1.8.0 available. It includes a limited preview of the PHP runtime (apparently the top requested feature). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re bringing one of the most popular web programming languages to App Engine so that you can run open source apps like WordPress,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html\">says<\/a> Google&#8217;s Urs H\u00f6lzle. &#8220;It also offers deep integration with other parts of Cloud Platform including Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google also introduced Google Cloud Datastore, a solution for non-relational data. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the popular App Engine High Replication Datastore, Cloud Datastore is a standalone service that features automatic scalability and high availability while still providing powerful capabilities such as ACID transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and more,&#8221; explains H\u00f6lzle.<\/p>\n<p>More on all of the Google Cloud Platform news <a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=P_pYurEizpM:2Lcb3HT6YUw:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/P_pYurEizpM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at Google I\/O, Google unveiled Compute Engine. 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