Compute Engine

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Live migration and availability policy

Your running instance is migrated to another host in the same zone

Does not change any attributes

Supports Local SSD's

NOT supported for GPU;s

It's configured under Availability policy

Default is to migrate

You can also configure terminate and automatic restart.

You are able to create your own machine types and instance settings

You are billed per vcpu and memory provisioned

You are able to add a GPU to your machines

They are good for AI/ML use

Should have GPU libraries

Higher cost

Not supported on all machine types

Cant do live migration on GPU machines. Should be terminated instance.

VMs are created underProjects

Machine types and availability differ from region to region

You can only change a machine type after the instance has stopped

VM's can be filtered on the page

They are Zonal so only run in a specific zone

Images are global and can be added to other projects if needs be

Templates are global unless you use zonal resources

Automated Basic Monitoring

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