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1. n2-standard-16 (Intel Cascade Lake): https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1257619
2. n2d-standard-16 (AMD EPYC): https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1257340
3. n1-standard-16 (Intel Skylake): https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1257420
Intel Cascade Lake is with a very small lead on 1st place. But AMD is with three-year commitment the cheapest option. Great to have a choice. Thx @cvallejo
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That reflects the lumbering, bureaucratic nature of enterprises.
Any company has a problem, which they size the value that it has to be tackled for, so they set budget, measure options, raise possible trade-offs, eventually succeed at dealing with it or get bitten due to lack of proper future-proofing, not evaluating environment/requirements properly, rinse and repeat. Once you've got several problems that require this kind of approach, carefully handpicking the possibly-but-not-p…
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Plenty of services can deal with X hours of downtime when a single machine fails for values of X that are longer than it takes to restore to a new machine from backups.
I do not agree, and it is not my experience.Mind you that I've always worked in small/mid-sized businesses (50-300 employees) and basically every service has someone needing it for their daily work. Sure, they may live without it for some times, but you will make their lives more miserable. And anyway if you already have all in place to completely rebuild every SPOF machine from scratch in a few hours, go the extra m…
Single machines just don't fail that often. I managed a database server for an internal tool and the machine failed once in about 10 years. It was commodity hardware, so I just restored the backups to a spare workstation and it was back up in less than 2 hours. 15 people used this service and they could get some work done, without it, so there was less than 30 person-hours of productivity lost. If I spent 30 hours getting failover &c. working for this system over a 10 year period, it would have been more hours lost for the company than the failure caused.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. This has come up a few times, so I wanted to reiterate that these are the Zen2/Rome parts not the first generation “Naples” parts. We didn’t bother launching Naples for GCE, because (as you can see) Rome is a huge step up.