[dijit]

I was keen on migrating to ARM, but there seems to be no benefits from doing so on GCP; I'm open to be wrong here.

From what I understand they're using Ampere Altra, which have single thread performance similar to Skylake; but the cost is equivelant or worse than the x86 e2 series.

e2-standard-4: USD 97.84/mo

t2a-standard-4: USD 112.42/mo

(sustained use discounts apply to neither).

EDIT: I see you're in Denmark and are operations focused. I am too operations focused and just across the bridge in Malmö, maybe we could hang out.

[mduggles]

Yeah sorry I should have been more clear. Currently the ARM instances in GCP when you use them as spot basically never get interrupted. We’re big into GKE so use them as a preferred node group for interruptible pods. I assume due to the pricing you mentioned usage is very low.

So basically any background jobs or big batch processing jobs that required a lot of CPU time. We have multi-arch container builds so if we can’t scale out the ARM node group not a problem, go back to x86. But it was worth the optimizing to get effectively always available spot instances.

Yeah always open to meet up with folks. I’m on mastodon at [e-mail].

[re-thc]

The real hidden gems of GCP are the 90% off spot instances in a lot of regions for e.g. N2D.

ARM makes 0 sense on GCP if you can use those.

[johncolanduoni]

T2A vCPUs are full cores though right? While E2 and most other instances are hyperthreads.

[bennythink]

Actually I’m in Sweden. Of course we could hang out in sometime. Just cross the bridge. Here’s my email [e-mail]