How CIOs can reduce cloud cost
summary
Google Cloud announces a specific cost plan: N4 (Emerald Rapids + DRM) virtual machines let customers pick custom or predefined shapes and boost price‑performance via Dynamic Resource Management; Hyperdisk Storage Pools pool block storage across instances to raise IOPS and throughput while cutting duplicate provisioning; claimed 30–40% storage savings when workloads share a pool; and Managed Instance Groups (autohealing/autoscaling) unifies capacity, load balancing and scaling to increase CPU utilization and lower overall VM spend.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Meet Yang
- 0:26Demos explained
- 1:05What is an N4 instance?
- 2:24What is Hyperdisk?
- 3:56What are Managed Instance Groups?
- 4:56Wrap up
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