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I don't think Google provides SGX on their cloud instances (SGX is extremely limited right now, since any code your placing in an enclave must be signed by Intel).
But I'd be interested to know if there are any plans to do so. Google Cloud people reading this - are you there?
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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…
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft; opinions are mine.
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The issue is VAT in each country in the EU (which I assume you're based in). We don't (currently) collect VAT, but as businesses are required to represent that they'll pay it in their home countries, we can allow you to use it as a business. It pains me (and others) deeply that we "block" individuals like this, but that's how it is today. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
That is a weird restriction given that I can buy from the Play Store, etc. But thanks for your response. Back to AWS it is.
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There's been a lot of talk in the compliance gcp slack on this, seems like a lot of products are being audited and announcements will be made at Next.
Let's hope they are building the managed Postgres product from the ground up with an eye toward compliance!
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Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
Please come to NEXT in two weeks! ( https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com ). Most of the registration becomes credits :).
I've been benchmarking these against Haswell and Broadwells. Despite being 300 MHz slower, we're getting between 5 and 45% faster benchmarks on linear algebra functions that we run a lot, even without doing much work to tailor to AVX512 instructions yet. The cache is also a whopping 56 MB.
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I think if you are trying to create a trial account while being logged in into your personal Google account, it should give you that option. disclaimer: personal opinion. I work at Google but not related to this area.
This is what I tried (logged in via private browsing window), but no luck.
I've been benchmarking these against Haswell and Broadwells. Despite being 300 MHz slower, we're getting between 5 and 45% faster benchmarks on linear algebra functions that we run a lot, even without doing much work to tailor to AVX512 instructions yet. The cache is also a whopping 56 MB.
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.
> You'll be able to use the new processor with Compute Engine’s standard, highmem, highcpu and custom machine types. We also plan to continue to introduce bigger and better VM instance types that offer more vCPUs and RAM for compute- and memory-intensive workloads.
[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-G...
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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?" 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…
Actually, Azure takes a very strong platform agnostic approach. Over a third of all VMs on Azure are running Linux https://fossbytes.com/33-microsoft-azure-vms-now-run-linux-o... , (supported distributions include Ubuntu, Redhat, Centos, SUSE, Debian, and CoreOS), the Azure Container Service supports 3 open-source orchestrators (Swarm, Kubernetes, DC/OS), and the Azure WebApp PaaS service has Linux support in preview…
I wasn't going to lay it out here, but, as I have your ear:
I'm not saying it's impossible to run a Linux stack on Azure - but man, trying to image the machine, for example, is a whole rigamarole.
Want to run your own image on a scale set? Oh, well, you need to craft a JSON template, by hand. There also appear to be limits on how many machines can run off an image.
ARM is a a mess (IMHO), and it's impossible to select a custom image when creating a new resource group. It also seems (correct me if I'm wrong) impossible to change the vnet of a VM/ARM after it's created. it also seems like ARMs can't share an existing vnet. Again, please, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm new to this service.
I may have to drop to running a bootstrap script to get my stuff working, but the idea of doing a curl | sh is pretty horrific to me, from a security perspective.
Non MS-SQL as a service? Nope.
The new managed disks are very nice. I like those a lot :)
Also, Azure times out my ssh sessions :(
Just for reference, since you don't choose your processor explicitly on GCP, but instead choose your zone with homogenous processors, here is their current processor/zone layout: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-... Since some GCP engineers are watching: Presumably we'll see some new zones to provide these processors, or will it be a limited release within existing zones? And if so, will yo…