Google Cloud Engine

The Google company announced in the fall of 2012 considerable updating of the IaaS-service Google Cloud Engine and also informed on new opportunities which concern policy of storage of the user information. As for the last, from now on Google guarantees to the European application developers and users of the cloud services that their data will be processed within borders of the EU.

'Now the clients using Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL and Google Compute Engine will be able to unroll the applications, data and virtual machines in the European DPCs that will allow to increase information processing performance, at the same time reducing cross-border circulation of traffic' — the company reports in the blog.

Google pays attention that the only restriction which clients of its cloud services, but which is regulated by legal acts of the EU will not be able to avoid is the safety of information within borders of the member countries of the EU therefore the search giant reserves the right to block work of those clients who will break this restriction.

In addition to policy of storage of the user information, not less significant changes concerned also operation of Google Cloud Engine. This IaaS-service was started by Google in July, 2012 and developed 'in response to numerous requests from developers and business' as the manager on products of the company Craig Maklaki wrote in the blog Google Enterprise.

Google Cloud Engine allows to start virtual machines running Linux with 1, 2, 4 or 8 virtual kernels and 3.75 GB of memory on a core on demand. Virtual machines can be operated using the command line, the web interface or created by the user by means of API Google of management systems. The service is supported from many leading players in the field of cloud management, including RightScale, Puppet Labs, Opscode, Numerate, Cliqr and MapR.

The head of division of Google Cloud Platform in EMEA region Barack Regev reported to ZDNet that the rented infrastructure of Cloud Engine was complemented with 36 new types of servers that will allow clients to diversify the choice of virtual computing environment or diskless configuration. The last will allow developers to save at the expense of a disk quota, having used instead of it tanks of so-called ephemeral disks which work quicker selected, but do not allow to store information on a permanent basis.

Besides, Google approximately for 5% reduced the prices of all basic packets of Google Compute Engine and by 20% — the cost of storage of files in Cloud Storage Google service. For convenience of Google developers offered new service — PDS (persistent disk snapshotting) allowing to create the backup copy ('the instant picture') of a disk, to move it between DPCs of Google and also to use it for creation of new virtual machines.