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AWS do the same: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/ Interestingly, AWS have X1 and X1E-class EC2 offe

AWS do the same: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/ Interestingly, AWS have X1 and X1E-class EC2 offerings, two of which are significantly larger than this new Google offering.

Jdam 9y ago
But only Haswell, where GCP offers Skylake
- p0rkbelly 9y ago
  ...but curious to see the performance gain on SAP (or similar) workloads with a new CPU architecture. RAM is the bottleneck typically.
- dom0 9y ago
  So -80 % memory for 0-5 % more compute throughput?
- boulos 9y ago
  I think their latest instances were 4 socket Broadwell. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.