Google Compute Engine: what is the difference between disk snapshot and disk image?

Question

I\'ve been using both for my startup and to me, the functionality is the same. Until now, the instances I\'ve been creating are only for computation. I\'m wondering how GCE dis

Answer 1

I would like to add in the above answers that the snapshots can also be shared across the projects and it is a global resource just like images. Snapshots are different than images just on the basis of the bootability for instances and template instances.

Ref.: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots Section: "Permissions required for this task"