# Google Cloud Tau VM Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Other IT Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-it-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Google Cloud Tau VM
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.




## Google Cloud Tau VM Reviews
  ### 1. Tau VM family is the new best in class

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jimmy L. | Dev ops, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Tau VM?**

The Tau VM family is the new VM family that extends Compute Engine’s VM offerings for those looking for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads with full x86 compatibility.
The goal of these environments – much like in an enterprise datacenter – is to deliver the best performance at the lowest cost for enterprise workloads. Media transcoding, Java-based applications, containerized workloads, and web servers are all targets for the Tau platform.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Tau VM?**

from my point of view there are no problems with this type of machine

**What problems is Google Cloud Tau VM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Tau VMs are ideal for CPU-bound workloads such as web-serving with encryption, video encoding, compression/decompression, image processing and horizontally-scaled applications

  ### 2. Best Cloud Platform for Cloud

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jithu K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Tau VM?**

The best thing about Google Cloud Tau VM is its ability to store cloud data and perfect execution

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Tau VM?**

The thing which i dislike or not comfortable is the pricing

**What problems is Google Cloud Tau VM solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Google Cloud Tau VM is solving the issue of global cloud storage for me



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