GCE
Technology & Computing abbreviation · Cloud Computing
| Stands for | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|
| Categories | Technology & Computing |
GCE stands for Google Compute Engine, a cloud computing abbreviation.
Google Cloud's infrastructure-as-a-service offering for running virtual machines, with predefined and custom machine types, GPUs and TPUs, and per-second billing.
Example: Spin up a GCE instance with two GPUs for the overnight training run.
Usage notes
Announced in 2012 and generally available in 2013. Live migration moves running virtual machines between hosts during maintenance without rebooting them. Spot VMs offer steep discounts for interruptible work. It is Google's counterpart to Amazon EC2.
Related abbreviations
More cloud computing abbreviations
- EFS – Elastic File System
- EKS – Elastic Kubernetes Service
- ELB – Elastic Load Balancing
- FaaS – Function as a service
- FedRAMP – Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
- FinOps – Financial operations (cloud)
- GCP – Google Cloud Platform
- GCS – Google Cloud Storage
- GKE – Google Kubernetes Engine
- HA – High availability
- HCL – HashiCorp Configuration Language
- HPC – High-performance computing