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It's an Ampere Altra for those first instances. So no on both.
They could have named Ampere and give credit to them, I think it's common in cloud instance offerings to have AMD or Intel also being named as underlying physical CPUs, even with the generation.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-fi...
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> you cannot easily source arm hardware commercially Buy Mac Minis and run virtual linux inside?
I've been passively curious about this for a homelab--does linux virtualize on apple silicon today? I was of the impression this didn't work when they announced m1 in 2020, but I could be misremembering.
People would probably be more interested in the underlying Google Cloud ARM announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32084887
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They could have named Ampere and give credit to them, I think it's common in cloud instance offerings to have AMD or Intel also being named as underlying physical CPUs, even with the generation.
They did in the docs, 2nd paragraph of the blog post, etc https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-fi...
Pricing is in line with the cloud: expensive. That's it, they made it: now Arm servers are mainstream.
Pricing is in line with the cloud: expensive. That's it, they made it: now Arm servers are mainstream.
I always found the CPU pricing of cloud to be relatively reasonable. It's everything else that's expensive, and egress bandwidth just ridiculous.
It's quite light on details: What properties does the (virtualized) ARM CPU that one gets have? Can it do KVM itself (meaning the underlying real CPU has support for nested KVM)? Can it do ARMv8.3 pointer authentication?
Pricing is in line with the cloud: expensive. That's it, they made it: now Arm servers are mainstream.
I always found the CPU pricing of cloud to be relatively reasonable. It's everything else that's expensive, and egress bandwidth just ridiculous.
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not sure about pricing here, but graviton on aws has generally offered more performance at a lower price point, which is likely linked to lower power usage and perhaps lower cost of custom silicon vs intel. the notion, "the cloud is expensive", ignores the fact that the cloud is not just rented hardware, but staff, facilities, planning, management, etc.. there are businesses where it makes more sense to own hardware…
> you cannot easily source arm hardware commercially Buy Mac Minis and run virtual linux inside?
In theory so far because I'm not sure if there are mature installers and such yet.