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New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta

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343 points cvallejo | 3 comments | 18 Feb 20 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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pier25 ◴[18 Feb 20 17:54 UTC] No.22358249[source]▶
What are the implications? Higher perf and/or lower price?
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1. kart23 ◴[18 Feb 20 18:01 UTC] No.22358349[source]▶
Looks to be about $5/Month cheaper, based on this page:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing#n2_machine_type...

Jeez, I didn't realize how expensive cloud compute was. I always wondered why my school still has a datacenter. Having your own servers still makes sense for a lot of orgs.

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2. anthony_doan ◴[18 Feb 20 18:37 UTC] No.22358793[source]▶
It's also expensive to get data out of cloud too. Getting data in is easy but getting it out will cost you.
3. acdha ◴[18 Feb 20 19:51 UTC] No.22359651[source]▶
It’s a question of how dynamic your usage is and how much the better security and management features save you. If you have very consistent workloads with little idle hardware and modest admin needs you can beat cloud environments even with reservations but usually when I see the numbers it means major costs like staffing or power / HVAC aren’t being factored in.