Google Cloud customers running high performance applications can now launch compute instances with up to 96 virtual CPUs, thanks to an update released today. The new 96 vCPU instances can support up to 624GB of RAM, making them good candidates for applications that scale up to take advantage of additional compute capacity on a single node. That’s important for customers … [Read more...] about Google launches Intel Skylake-backed cloud instances with 96 vCPUs
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Standard or Custom Cloud Instances? How to Decide?
Throughout the computing era, we’ve seen the pendulum swing between customized and standard solutions. Custom solutions, tailored to the precise needs of an application or user, can boost efficiency, productivity, and ease-of-use, but come at a premium price. Standard solutions provide economies of scale, greater compatibility, and lower prices, but the … [Read more...] about Standard or Custom Cloud Instances? How to Decide?
Standard or Custom Cloud Instances? How to Decide?
Throughout the computing era, we’ve seen the pendulum swing between customized and standard solutions. Custom solutions, tailored to the precise needs of an application or user, can boost efficiency, productivity, and ease-of-use, but come at a premium price. Standard solutions provide economies of scale, greater compatibility, and lower prices, but the … [Read more...] about Standard or Custom Cloud Instances? How to Decide?
Don’t Have Reservations About Your Reserved Instances
On the face of it, reserving cloud capacity in advance seems like a no-brainer. After all, the promised cost savings can be compelling. Customers purchasing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, for example, can save up to 75% of the costs of buying on-demand instances when needed. As is so often the case with such tantalizing benefits, however, the cost savings of reserved instances … [Read more...] about Don’t Have Reservations About Your Reserved Instances
The science of selecting the right public cloud instances
While organisations are increasingly moving application workloads to public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), many are now realising the pitfalls. Once promising a cost-effective solution, numerous organisations are in fact significantly overspending and overprovisioning their cloud instances. To give a measure of the issue, analysts predict that by 2020, 80% of … [Read more...] about The science of selecting the right public cloud instances