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I was keen on migrating to ARM, but there seems to be no benefits from doing so on GCP; I'm open to be wrong here. From what I understand they're using Ampere
by dijit 3y ago
I was keen on migrating to ARM, but there seems to be no benefits from doing so on GCP; I'm open to be wrong here.
From what I understand they're using Ampere Altra, which have single thread performance similar to Skylake; but the cost is equivelant or worse than the x86 e2 series.
e2-standard-4: USD 97.84/mo
t2a-standard-4: USD 112.42/mo
(sustained use discounts apply to neither).
EDIT: I see you're in Denmark and are operations focused. I am too operations focused and just across the bridge in Malmö, maybe we could hang out.
- re-thc 3y agoThe real hidden gems of GCP are the 90% off spot instances in a lot of regions for e.g. N2D. ARM makes 0 sense on GCP if you can use those.
- mduggles 3y agoYeah sorry I should have been more clear. Currently the ARM instances in GCP when you use them as spot basically never get interrupted. We’re big into GKE so use them as a preferred node group for interruptible pods. I assume due to the pricing you mentioned usage is very low. So basically any background jobs or big batch processing jobs that required a lot of CPU time. We have multi-arch container builds so if we can’t scale out the ARM node group not a problem, go back to x86. But it was worth the optimizing to get effectively always available spot instances. Yeah always open to meet up with folks. I’m on mastodon at matdevdug@c.im.
- johncolanduoni 3y agoT2A vCPUs are full cores though right? While E2 and most other instances are hyperthreads.
- bennythink 3y agoActually I’m in Sweden. Of course we could hang out in sometime. Just cross the bridge. Here’s my email emeries-atolls.0w@icloud.com