Google has introduced its Google Compute Engine (GCE) service to the general public who pay the company $400 per month for Gold support for cloud services.
The company introduced Gold support in February 2013, while GCE was launched in June 2012.
Google senior project manager Navneet Joneja said Google Compute Engine gives developers everywhere access to the company’s computing infrastructure. "Now you can sign up online for Google Compute Engine with the purchase of Gold Support; you no longer need an invitation or a conversation with sales to get access," Joneja said.
"Since announcing Compute Engine, we’ve expanded geographic coverage, added new instance types, released many new features, and made improvements behind the scenes."
Along with the broadening of access, the company also cut the price across all of GCE’s rentable instances by 4%.
Additional cloud features include the ability to attach and detach persistent disks from running instances, a new management console and five new server families to rent including diskless variants of standard instances, in addition to diskful and diskless variants of high-memory and high-CPU configurations.
