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See how to test drive Virtual Machines on Google Compute Engine in 10 minutes
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
A single US cent stretches quite far when experimenting with Google Compute Engine. Watch this video to see how affordable and quick it is. In this video, we walk through the steps required to create a Google Cloud Platform project and start up a virtual machine. Next, we install a web server (Apache) on the virtual machine and fetch a web page to confirm a successful installation. Finally we tear down the virtual machine to wrap up the exercise - all in less than 10 minutes, and under a cent!
Check out the video to see how easy it is to get started with Google Compute Engine and the Cloud Platform. For a self-paced guide on getting started with Compute Engine,
visit the Hello World tutorial
.
- Posted by Jonathan Simon, Developer Relations
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