Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud announced that Google's cloud services will be based on the newest data center chip from AMD — EPYC 7003 also known as Milan.
AMD released its 3rd Gen AMD EPYC in March 2021. The list of companies using the new chip includes Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Lenovo, and others, and now Google Cloud will be joining them as well. According to AMD's official press release, the new AMD EPYC 7003 series processors will power Google Cloud's "new compute-optimized VM, C2D, and an expansion of the existing general-purpose N2D VM later this year." Those new virtual machines are called Tau VMs.
As Google estimated, Tau VMs will offer more than 50% higher “absolute performance” compared to other general-purpose VMs. The new powerful AMD EPYC 7003-powered virtual machines will become available to Google Cloud regions in the third quarter of this year. Google's customers including Snap Inc and Twitter Inc are currently testing the new AMD-based services.
Shortly after AMD released Milan in March, Intel announced its "Ice Lake" chip in April and said the major cloud providers would be using it, however, with Google officially confirming the use of AMD's microprocessor Ice Lake's fate is unclear.
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