Google's new compute cloud offers a crisp and clean way to spin up Linux instances and easily tap other Google APIs.

With its Google Compute Engine launched Thursday, Google is offering an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) cloud for running Linux virtual machines on the same infrastructure that powers the ...

The latest feature of Google's cloud allows partners and end users to rent virtual machines running the new Linux distribution on Compute Engine, Google's Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering.

Google also added several upgrades to the Compute Engine, which the search giant introduced in June 2012 as a competitor to Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’) cloud computing service and other ...

For starters, the Compute Engine is ready for an open preview and available for open signups. Essentially, interested customers can head to cloud.google.com and start using Compute Engine later today.

Google Compute Engine (GCE), the infrastructure service of Google Cloud Platform, is a late entrant in the market. Amazon EC2 was announced in 2006 while Microsoft added VMs to Azure in 2012 ...

At day two of its Google I/O developers' conference, Google announced a new infrastructure-as-a-service offering as well as enhancements to Google Docs and its Google Drive cloud storage service.

Google entered the cloud computing game back in 2008, when it unveiled Google App Engine, a service that lets outside software developers build and host applications atop the same sweeping ...

Google has entered the busy 'Infrastructure as a service' (IaaS) arena today with its new Google Compute Engine service. The cloud service, which Google describes as in a 'Limited Preview Release ...