AMD pointed to Epyc's performance, security features, and energy efficiency.
"AMD powers some of the most performant and energy efficient cloud instances available in the world today," said AMD server business unit senior vice president and general manager Dan McNamara.
"As part of our engagement with Google Cloud and SAP, SAP has selected AMD Epyc CPU-powered N2D instances to host its Business Suite enterprise software workloads. This decision by SAP delivers the performance and performance-per-dollar of Epyc processors to customers looking to modernise their data centres and streamline IT spending by accelerating time to value on their enterpRise applications."
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SAP enterprise cloud services CTO Lalit Patil said "As part of our Rise with SAP initiative, we have made a strategic decision to add AMD Epyc processor powered N2D instances in Google Cloud to run mission critical workloads for our enterprise cloud customers.
"Our engineering collaboration with AMD and Google Cloud can result in an increase in performance and performance-per-dollar over comparable instances."
Google Cloud vice president and general manager of compute Mark Lohmeyer said "Our collaboration with AMD and SAP delivers a scalable and performant solution for our joint customers seeking to move their workloads to the cloud.
"Google Cloud N2D VMs, powered by AMD Epyc processors, are helping us deliver impressive price-performance for SAP Business Suite workloads."