Tau VMs
Compute Engine virtual machines optimized for scale-out workloads.
Optimized for cost-effective performance
What's new
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Designed for scale-out workloads
Tau VMs offer a great combination of performance and price for your scale-out workloads including web servers, containerized microservices, media transcoding, and large-scale Java applications.
Architecture choice
Choose from x86 or Arm-based VMs to meet your workload and business requirements. Tau VMs provide excellent price-performance to test, develop, and run your workloads on the optimal architecture for your workload.
More savings
Tau VMs are the lowest cost solution for scale-out workloads on Compute Engine, with up to 42% higher price-performance compared to general-purpose VMs of any of the leading public cloud vendors.
Get more from your containers
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) supports Tau VMs, helping you optimize price-performance for your containerized workloads. Run Tau VMs in GKE Autopilot mode for a hands-off experience, or on GKE Standard clusters, where you manage your own nodepools.
Customers and partners
Industry leading price-performance
Choosing the right virtual machine
"At Snap, it is critical for our business to continue improving our scale-out compute infrastructure for key Snapchat capabilities like AR, Lenses, Spotlight and Maps. We were impressed when we tested Google Cloud’s new Tau VMs with Google Kubernetes Engine. While it's early days, we believe we can gain double digits in infrastructure performance improvements for key workloads—enabling us to do more with less and invest even more in new features for our amazing Snap community."
Cody Powell, Senior Engineering Manager, Snap
Pricing
Tau VMs are priced to support significant total cost and price-performance improvements for your cloud applications. Check out our pricing pages for more details.
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