Amazon's c5 (Skylake) series shouldn't be far behind...
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/coming-so...
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
#142Any sign of IPv6 support on the horizon? Slightly embarrassing in 2017...
Honestly Amazon EC2 just got VPC's with IPv6. My ISP still doesn't have native IPv6 either.
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#143Hahaha. 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.
Who's your vendor? I'd like to get the same deal you're getting.
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Out of curiosity, why would you prefer Google Cloud to AWS?
Spending on GCP is more predictable than on AWS. Also the general behavior is more predictable. For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources. I believe that whatever GCP does, does better. Faster network, faster spinning and turning off servers, simpler quotas, etc. GCP doesn't offer that many services as AWS and most of those are not very compatible…
Holy cow, 28 000 servers, can you give us a clue to what you need so many servers for?
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#145A Google day is not responsive
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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 externa…
Using DNS for HA is a lose-lose scenario. I'll take a proper load balancer backed with a cloud provider's superior network any day.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#147Hahaha. 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.
As another has said, who is your vendor?
I'm sure they would like some more customers :)
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Purley is the big Skylake based server platform chipset reset for Xeon E5 and higher so Google must have early access to it. Skylake Xeon E3 is on the current older server chipsets.. Purley is supposed to be a significant improvement.
E3 is not a server SKU, it's meant for workstations and it's more similar to i7 than E5. It lacks various features including ECC RAM which, I suppose, is a no-starter for cloud hosting. Also some virtualization capabilities are missing, notably accelerated interrupt injection (APICv+posted interrupts).
I've seen E3's in low end servers like the Dell T20...
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Heh, I know you don't want to talk about Azure, but perhaps others can share -- what's so bad about it? It's superior for running Windows at least, right?
> "Heh, I know you don't want to talk about Azure, but perhaps others can share -- what's so bad about it?" This is what I will say: I'm working on a migration to it, so I'm not very experienced with it, but so far, it's been very painful compared to GCE or AWS, in which I've run production stacks. I'd rather not comment further, simply due to my relative new-ness to the service and the chance that it's just lack of…
Your GCE startup credits [1] or something else? Have you been in contact with our PMs about Pgsql?
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Still limited to a measly 208gb of RAM? That was pretty good back in the day, but now my desktop workstation has 128gb. AWS offers up to 488gb on their latest R4 instances, and 2tb on their X1 instances released a year ago.
damn. out of curiosity, what do u use that much ram for?
Database