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Compute: GCE, App Engine, & GKE
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Compute Engine vs. App Engine vs. GKE
- Compute Engine (GCE): Standard IaaS. You get a VM (Linux/Windows). Uniquely, GCP offers Preemptible VMs (Spot instances) which are much cheaper but can be stopped by Google at any time—perfect for batch processing.
- App Engine (GAE): The original PaaS. You upload code. It scales to zero (costs nothing if no one uses it). Good for web apps.
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Google invented Kubernetes. GKE is the most mature managed K8s service. It abstracts away the management of the Kubernetes "Control Plane" (Master node), letting you focus on your worker nodes and containers.