In At its recent developers conference, Google launched what it calls Google Compute Engine, which provides general purpose virtual machines as part of its expanding roster of cloud services.
In his blog post, Peter S Magnusson, Engineering Director of Google App Engine Team, wrote: "Google App Engine has been at the heart of Googles cloud offerings since our launch in 2008, and were excited to begin providing developers more flexible, generalized VMs to complement our fully-managed, autoscaling environment. App Engine has been growing rapidly since leaving preview, and were excited about the benefits that Google Compute Engine brings to developers who want to combine the advantages of App Engines easy-to-use, scalable, managed platform with the flexibility of VMs."
A Wired.com report on the launch quotes Urs Hlzle, who oversees Googles infrastructure, as saying that the compute engine gives developers "Linux virtual machines at Google-scale" and that they can choose to spin up just two VMs or as many as 10,000 VMs.
Magnusson has invited developers interested in using VMs with their App Engine applications in the future through a link. target="_blank">Click here to go to the sign-up page.
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