Google Cloud’s new Tau VM family provides better price-performance than the competition with full x86 compatibility to boot.
In an effort to help organizations tackle their scale-out workloads, Google Cloud has teamed up with AMD to create a new virtual machine (VM) family called Tau VM. Tau VM is part of the search giant’s Compute Engine portfolio and these new instances provide customers with the right combination of performance, price and easy integration for scale out applications. In fact, the first instance in the Tau VM family delivers over 40 percent higher price-performance that comparable offerings from other leading cloud computing providers. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian explained in a press release why the company chose AMD to help create its new Tau VM instances, saying: „Customers across every industry are dealing with more demanding and data-intensive workloads and looking for strategic ways to speed up performance and reduce costs.
