Baidu Cloud Compute (BCC) vs Google Compute Engine

Baidu Cloud Compute (BCC) creates and manages elastically scalable cloud server instances. Instance families include general-purpose, compute-optimized, storage-optimized, GPU, and FPGA options, with public, marketplace, service-integration, or custom images. Users can adjust instances and bandwidth, scale resources, and connect private data centers in a hybrid cloud. APIs cover creating, stopping, querying, reinstalling, and releasing instances; remote access uses Client, SmartTerm, or VNC. Security features include multi-layer DDoS protection, failover completed in seconds, automatic snapshots, an instance-level virtual firewall, and monitoring alerts. The product page states 99.9999999% data durability. Postpaid use is billed per minute, rounding partial minutes up; prepaid terms run one to nine months or one to three years, while reserved instances use one- or three-year commitments. BCC supports web, API, Linux, and Windows, and creating an instance requires real-name certification.

Google Compute Engine is an infrastructure-as-a-service product for running self-managed virtual machines on Google infrastructure. Choose a predefined machine type or configure a custom VM with 1 to 96 vCPUs and up to 8.0 GB of memory per core. Linux and Windows VMs are supported, with images including Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Windows Server. Storage options include Persistent Disk and Local SSD. Managed instance groups can add VMs for peak load and replace underperforming instances; live migration can move a VM to another host in the same zone when its host goes down. Confidential VMs encrypt data in use, while Shielded VMs defend against rootkits and bootkits. The service integrates with Cloud Storage, App Engine, and BigQuery, and resources can be controlled through a REST-based API. Its free tier is free, within monthly limits and eligible US regions. Pay-as-you-go pricing is usage-based, with VM resources billed after a one-minute minimum in one-second increments.