July 13th, 2022: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce an optimised Ubuntu image for the preview of Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs) on Compute Engine. Google Cloud users will benefit from running Ubuntu, a popular cloud operating system, on a secure, scalable, and highly cost-effective cloud infrastructure. The Ampere® Altra® Arm-based T2A VMs are ideal for computing workloads including microservices, application servers, machine learning (ML), open source databases, and in-memory caches.
Canonical has had a long-term strategy for Arm architecture for a decade. At Computex 2012, MiTAC demonstrated their first Arm Server, running Ubuntu. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was also the pioneer in supporting Armv7-A Cortex-A15 chip and Armv8 SoCs. Since the start of our Arm journey, Canonical has been focused on solving challenges such as: mixed x86 and Arm environments; multiple SoCs; provisioning large deployments; and mixed public and private cloud deployments. Continuing this strategy,…
