Cloud, google, Microsoft

First Look – Windows Virtual Machine on the Google Cloud

Posted on by lynnlangit in Cloud, google, Microsoft

Yes, you read this right.  Google announced last week at their cloud event, that their IaaS service – Google Compute Engine would begin to offer ‘premium operating systems’ – including Windows.  After getting approval from Google to join their limited preview, I tried this functionality out and here’s the results…

 

 

One thought on “First Look – Windows Virtual Machine on the Google Cloud”

  1. Hello lynnlangit,
    I liked very much, I’m just studying migrate to google cloud my Windows Server 2008R2 + IIS + MS SQL Server application.
    Is it possible to install MS SQL in Windows VM Google?
    Plan to gradually replace the MS SQL by Google Cloud SQL and then migrate the IIS application to Google App Engine.
    Sounds crazy or can this be so?
    Thanks in advance

    Reply

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