Google cosies up to AMD for high-performance scale-out Tau VMs – but makes eyes at Intel and Arm, too
New 60 vCPU VMs come with some bold price-performance claims, but AMD needs to stay on its toes Google's cloud arm has hooked up with AMD, tapping up its latest EPYC processors for a new family of virtual machines, Tau VMs, aimed at scale-out applications - but the company isn't keen on tying itself down to just one chip-slinger....