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

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343 points cvallejo | 4 comments | 18 Feb 20 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.712s | source
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867-5309 ◴[18 Feb 20 23:31 UTC] No.22361558[source]▶
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I was surprised to discover the other day that one of my VPSs had been upgraded from 1 old Xeon 26XX core to 2 EPYC cores. other stats unmetered 10Gb/s up/down, low latency A'dam location, 2GB RAM, SSD.. it even outperformed my i7-8700T in a single-core openSSL benchmark. most importantly it costs €3/mo

I really can't see google competing with that

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1. Dontrememberit ◴[18 Feb 20 23:38 UTC] No.22361601[source]▶
Which VPS?
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2. 867-5309 ◴[19 Feb 20 00:01 UTC] No.22361766[source]▶
Scaleway
3. anderspitman ◴[19 Feb 20 00:01 UTC] No.22361769[source]▶
Yeah that seems a little too good.
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4. WhiteOwlLion ◴[19 Feb 20 15:58 UTC] No.22366615[source]▶
The pings times may not be as good to France (or Europe in general), but the bandwidth provisions are much more generous than the USA. They have peering agreements with other ISPs, so hopefully a lot of the transit of that bandwidth ends up being "free" to them. Even on a 100Mbps line, I was able to push 30TB a month, so it is possible if you there is enough demand for the data.