Google Cloud Tau VM Instances Delivering Better Performance, Value Than Graviton2 M6g - Phoronix

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2021-10-19 16:00:10

Announced earlier this year for Google Cloud was a new family of virtual machines called Tau VMs. The initial T2D instances are powered by AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors to deliver leading performance and are also positioned to deliver great value in going up against the likes of Amazon's Graviton2 instances. Tau VM instances are now available as a preview and Google has provided us with gratis access to the new instance types for benchmarking.

The Tau VM instances were born out of Google and AMD collaborating to come up with a new instance type that could offer leading performance, price, and streamlined integration. The T2D instances are designed for web services, container workloads, large Java applications, and other scale-out workloads.

Back in the June announcement of Tau VMs, Google cited up to 56% higher absolute performance and up to 42% higher price-performance over the general purpose VMs over other public cloud providers. The Tau VM family currently consists of instances up to 60 vCPUs and 4GB of system memory per vCPU. Google's original announcement notes that T2D VMs should be available as a preview in Q3'2021, which has begun happening this month.