Google Introduces Custom Machines Types For Its Cloud Platform

Today Google Cloud Platform announced Custom Machines Types. With this new feature users that run their applications in the cloud no longer have to over buy VMs that are sold in pre-packed numbers, typically in twos. Instead users will be able to build the VM in the shapes (vCPU and memory) they need for their given workload.

Today Google Cloud Platform announced Custom Machines Types. With this new feature users that run their applications in the cloud no longer have to over buy VMs that are sold in pre-packed numbers, typically in twos. Instead users will be able to build the VM in the shapes (vCPU and memory) they need for their given workload.

Workloads don’t always fit within predefined VMs. If the workload is just slightly over what is sold by cloud providers, users must buy the next size up and pay for resources they aren’t using. Custom Machines Types will give users the flexibility and freedom to build VM with the resources they need and charge them by hourly usage of he resources. Users can select as few as 1 vCPU per VM and as high as 32 vCPU per VM (however vCPUs must be bought in an even amount after 1) and up to 6.5 GiU per vCPU.

Google states that customers can save money buy only buying what they need to run their workloads on and use per-minute billing and sustained use discounts. If the workload needs change, customers can simply move their application to another configuration.

Availability

Custom Machines Types are available now in beta and work with CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. Google plans on supporting even more OSs in the future.

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