Google Cloud's Tau Virtual Machines (VMs are designed to deliver exceptional price-performance for scale-out workloads. Leveraging the latest 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors, Tau VMs offer up to 42% better price-performance compared to general-purpose VMs from other leading cloud providers. This makes them ideal for applications such as web servers, containerized microservices, media transcoding, and large-scale Java applications. Key Features and Functionality: - High Performance: Tau VMs provide up to 60 vCPUs per VM, with 4 GB of memory per vCPU, ensuring robust performance for demanding workloads. - Cost Efficiency: Offering up to 42% higher price-performance, Tau VMs enable significant cost savings for scale-out applications. - Architecture Choice: Customers can choose between x86-based VMs powered by AMD EPYC processors and Arm-based VMs powered by Ampere Altra processors, allowing flexibility to meet specific workload requirements. - Seamless Integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE: Tau VMs are fully supported by GKE, facilitating optimized price-performance for containerized workloads. - Scalability: With predefined VM shapes and up to 32 Gbps networking bandwidth, Tau VMs are well-suited for horizontally scalable applications. Primary Value and User Benefits: Tau VMs address the need for high-performance, cost-effective solutions for scale-out workloads. By offering superior price-performance, they enable businesses to run demanding applications more efficiently, reducing total cost of ownership without compromising on performance. The flexibility in architecture choice and seamless integration with GKE further enhance their appeal for modern, cloud-native applications.