2014-12-10

Support Added for Solid-State Drives (SSD)

You can now utilize SSD storage with Google Compute Engine (GCE) instances. SSD is suitable for extreme low latency, high IOPS, and high throughput use cases such as large, high-performance databases.

Specifying Volume Type When Creating a Google Volume

A Volume Type must now be specified when you create a new Google Volume. A new Volume Type drop-down control includes choices for 'pd-standard', 'pd-ssd', and 'local-ssd' volume types. For additional information on creating Google Volumes, see Create a Google Volume.

Specifying Root Volume Size at Server Launch

For GCE and AWS volumes, you can now specify root volume size at the time of server launch.

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Rendering performance has been improved resulting in shorter page loading times.

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