Google Cloud Tau VM Instances Deliver Better Performance, Price-Performance Than Graviton2 M6g

Right from the start with the number of different tests conducted, we were seeing the Tau VM instances deliver great performance against Amazon's M6g competition.

While comparing the same size vCPUs and Graviton2 being backed all by physical cores, in some areas there are very wide leads, in part to the software being more mature and optimized on x86_64 than AArch64.

But even for workloads well optimized for AArch64, the T2D instances were coming out ahead of their similarly-sized M6g instances.

While the M6g on-demand pricing is slightly less than the equivalent T2D instance, in a performance-per-dollar the Tau VM family was coming out ahead across the benchmarks.

Both the t2d-standard-8 and t2d-standard-32 were delivering much uplift over the m6g.2xlarge and m6g.8xlarge instances, respectively.

Thus the Tau VM T2D family continued showing great value over the Graviton2 M6g instances.