GCP - Compute Engine - Pricing Options

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There are multiple ways how you can get discounts while using Compute Engine instances. To get the discounts, it's important to understand the pricing structure for Google Compute Engine.

• The billing for Compute Engine instances is done for each resources used in the instance. For example, each vCPU and each GB of memory used in the Compute Engine instance is billed separately.

GCP - Google Compute Engine - Disks Options

Boot Disks

• These are block storage volumes attached to the  Google Compute Engine instances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• This is the root volume where your images is loaded once you boot the VM instance.

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What is Google Compute Engine? 

• Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a Virtual Machine which is created on the Google Cloud Infrastructure.

GCP - Google Compute Engine - Machine Type

What is Machine Type?

• Machine Type is a template of virtualized hardware resources needed to instantiate the Google Compute Engine instances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The template contains resources like memory, virtual CPU, persistent disk storage.

GCP - Compute Engine - Images

Images

• While creating a Compute Engine instance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can choose Image.

Encryption at Rest in Storage Systems in GCP

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As part of the security features, Google Cloud Platform encrypts all the data in all storage system. The data is encrypted before storing it in the storage system.

GCP - Cloud Storage gsutil Commands

Why to Learn gsutil Command?

• In the GCP certification exam, there will be few questions based on the gsutil commands. 
• If you are working on Google Cloud projects, then also you should be knowing about these commands as these are faster way to work on Cloud Storage.

What is gsutil?

gsutil is a Command-line tool to work with Google Cloud Storage through CLI. You can install Google Cloud SDK and other command-line tools on your system like gcloud, gsutil and kubectl.