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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by stephenr »

hvb2 wrote: post #160
stephenr wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But any serious deployment of "cloud" infrastructure still needs management, you're just forcing the people doing it to use the small number of knobs the cloud provider makes available rather than giving them full access to the software itself.

not sure what you mean by a serious deployment, but a lot of companies will be perfectly fine with, some compute, object storage and a managed rdbms. Will that be more expensive than running it yourself? Absolutely. Does it allow teams to function and deliver independently, yes. As an org, you can prioritize cost or something else.

> a lot of companies will be perfectly fine with, some compute, object storage and a managed rdbms.

Right, and who or what causes those services to be provisioned, to be configured, etc.?

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by BeeOnRope »

zackify wrote: post #20

I just ran some massive tests on our own CI. I use AMD Turin for this on gcp, which was noted as one of the fastest ones in the article. The most insane part here is that the AMD EPYC 4565p can beat the turin's used on the cloud providers, by as much as 2x in the single core. Our tests took 2 minutes on GCP, 1 minute flat on the 4565p with its boost to 5.1ghz holding steady vs only 4.1ghz on the gcp ones. GCP charges…

> The most insane part here is that the AMD EPYC 4565p can beat the turin's used on the cloud providers, by as much as 2x in the single core.

That is ... hard to believe for a CPU-bound task. Do you have any open benchmark which can reproduce that?

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by hvb2 »

stephenr wrote: post #161
hvb2 wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not sure what you mean by a serious deployment, but a lot of companies will be perfectly fine with, some compute, object storage and a managed rdbms. Will that be more expensive than running it yourself? Absolutely. Does it allow teams to function and deliver independently, yes. As an org, you can prioritize cost or something else.

> a lot of companies will be perfectly fine with, some compute, object storage and a managed rdbms. Right, and who or what causes those services to be provisioned, to be configured, etc.?

Infrastructure as code tools like terraform etc? That's trivial compared to configuring a database for production use I would say.

You don't need to be DevOps to write that stuff, it's really simple.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by stephenr »

hvb2 wrote: post #163
stephenr wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a lot of companies will be perfectly fine with, some compute, object storage and a managed rdbms. Right, and who or what causes those services to be provisioned, to be configured, etc.?

Infrastructure as code tools like terraform etc? That's trivial compared to configuring a database for production use I would say. You don't need to be DevOps to write that stuff, it's really simple.

And who is writing the terraform configs?

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by keepamovin »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #121
keepamovin wrote: post #51

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The fragmentation and friction! Comparing prices usually requires 10 open browser tabs and a spreadsheet, which is what keeps people locked into their default cloud. I built a tool to solve this called BlueDot (ie, Earth, where all the clouds are)[0]. It’s a TUI that aggregates 58,000+ server configurations across 6 clouds (including Hetzner). It lets you view side-by-side price comparisons and deploy instantly from…

I use serververify which is created by jbiloh from the lowendtalk forum which uses yabs (yet-another-benchmark-script) to give details about lot more things than usually meets the eye. That being said, I have found getdeploying.com to be a decent starting point as well if you aren't too well versed within the Lowend providers who are quite diverse and that comes at both costs and profits. Btw legendary https://vpspri…

Thanks! A planned next iteration is to include more non-mainstream cheap providers in the TUI. But that's not as simple as the current model which wraps official CLIs, as these alt providers typically don't have CLIs and diverse listing and control surfaces.
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