Hacker News with Generative AI: Google Cloud

Benchmarks of Google's Axion Arm-Based CPU (phoronix.com)
Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types.

Google Cloud, Hardware, Benchmarks, CPU, Arm

49 points by mfiguiere 22 days ago | 12 comments

Leveraging Class E address space to mitigate IPv4 exhaustion issues in GKE (cloud.google.com)
As the number of applications and services hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) continues to grow, so does the demand for private IPv4 addresses (RFC 1918). For many large organizations, the RFC1918 address space is becoming increasingly scarce, leading to IP address exhaustion challenges that impact their application scale. IPv6 solves this exact address exhaustion issue by providing a lot more addresses. However not all enterprises or applications are ready for IPv6 yet.

Networking, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, IP Addressing

28 points by l1n 29 days ago | 76 comments

It is hard to recommend Google Cloud (ashishb.net)
I strongly believe Google Cloud is a superior product to both AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Cloud Computing, Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure

243 points by todsacerdoti 60 days ago | 171 comments

Got an unexpected $85K bill from Google Cloud (ycombinator.com)
As a small startup, we’re facing a major billing issue with u/GoogleCloud. An unintended error in our Translation API integration caused our bill to skyrocket to over $85K over a short period—five times our expected usage.

Cloud Computing, Google Cloud, Billing Issues, Startups

16 points by jiahengz 63 days ago | 15 comments

TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips (cloud.google.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Google Cloud, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning

142 points by mariuz 110 days ago | 62 comments

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups (techcrunch.com)

Google Cloud, Startups, AI, Nvidia GPUs, Cloud Computing

208 points by Astroboy007 111 days ago | 100 comments

Goodbye VPN by Google One, Hello VPN on Google Cloud (github.com/rajannpatel)

Google One, Google Cloud, VPN, Security, Cloud Services

10 points by RajanNPatel 152 days ago | 4 comments

Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund (axios.com)