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Out of curiosity, why would you prefer Google Cloud to AWS?
Managed Kubernetes.
How much of a boon is that, though? Isn't Kubernetes built to be self-managing on any platform?
Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#92Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.
The consumer Skylakes are not even in the same league as what we're announcing today. The easiest analogy is comparing a laptop to a beefy two-socket server.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and of course want you to pay us to use Skylake)
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#93Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.
That's pretty impressive hardware for under $150
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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Wow, that's persuasive... is the only reason people are choosing AWS the sheer number of products they provide? (eg; Postgres RDS & Aurora)
AWS has a better compliance story. Compare https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ to https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance
As far as HIPAA compliance goes, though, AWS EC2 requires dedicated tenancy, whereas GCE allows HIPAA workloads on any VM, including preemptible VMs.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#95Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.
renting used servers? any pointers would be helpful - $150/yr sounds cool
How much technical (DevOps-y) do you have to be keep it secure & available?
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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No, we don't provide any machines with AMD processors in Cloud, today. Fun historical fact though: the 'N' in n1 meant 'Intel'. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Any plans on doing that in the future?
During the Ryzen launch announcement GCP was listed on their partners, this may only be due to the availability of AMD GPU's but considering this was a CPU-specific talk I'd guess the magic 8-ball says "outlook good".
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#97Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.
renting used servers? any pointers would be helpful - $150/yr sounds cool How much technical (DevOps-y) do you have to be keep it secure & available?
Almost none. Put CoreOS on both, pull yourself a HA database and install Rancher which creates a ipsec network overlay (both hosts), set up your containers on both hosts, set up HAProxy on both hosts (configuration is done only once), then set up an external DNS service from the library that updates your DNS when a host goes down. I even run a small DNS server in 2 containers on both hosts so I don't need the external stuff, that updates automatically once hosts go down and also does some GeoIP resolution. Not complicated any more.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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Any idea on Naples timeframe for retail? I'm hoping to build a small workstation in a few months and 32 cores sounds like it might let me browse hacker news faster.
Not sure about Naples, but Ryzen is only being released on 8/16 c/t, and other lesser variants will be released in about 3~4 months. AMD said in January that Naples will release H1 2017. The Naples release cadence will be similar?
The 32c/64t part is the only one AMD is talking about, so I'm guessing it will be like the Ryzen Client launch - release the big chips first and then work your way down. All signs point to Naples being released in Q2, hopefully not in the way that "Q1" for Ryzen Client meaning near the end of the quarter :/
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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Does Google provide machines with AMD processors?
No, we don't provide any machines with AMD processors in Cloud, today. Fun historical fact though: the 'N' in n1 meant 'Intel'. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Interesting to know about the 'N'. How about g1 & f1? Any history behind those?