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Google Cloud makes Axion-based N4A virtual machines generally available
Google Cloud made N4A generally available, the second Axion instance family, using Arm's efficiency-focused Neoverse N3 cores. Google pitches it as its cheapest general-purpose VM line yet, for web servers, microservices and databases.
- Up to 2x better price-performance and 80% better performance per watt than comparable x86 VMs.
- Up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GB DDR5 and 50 Gbps networking, with custom machine shapes.
- Launched in nine regions across the US, Europe and Singapore.
- Early users include ZoomInfo (60% better price-performance on data pipelines) and Vimeo (30% faster video transcoding).