Google Cloud has announced its first line of ARM-based virtual machines (VMs).
The new Tau T2A chips(opens in new tab) will join Google’s existing line of Tau VMs, which were launched in June 2021.
Google says the new chips will be appropriate for scale-out workloads including web servers, containerized microservices, data-logging processing, media transcoding, and Java applications.
How much do they cost?
A 32vCPU VM with 128GB RAM will be priced at $1.232 per hour for on-demand usage in us-central1, and the entire new range is apparently price-performance optimized for cloud-native applications.
