New Axion C4A metal offers bare metal performance on Arm

Today, we are thrilled to announce C4A metal, our first bare metal instance running on Google Axion processors, available in preview soon. C4A metal is designed for specialized workloads that require direct hardware access and Arm®-native compatibility. 

Now, organizations running environments such as Android development, automotive simulation, CI/CD pipelines, security workloads, and custom hypervisors can run them on Google Cloud, without the performance overheads and complexity of nested virtualization.

C4A metal instances, like other Axion instances, are built on the standard Arm architecture, so your applications and operating systems compiled for Arm remain portable across your cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, protecting your development investment. C4A metal offers 96 vCPUs, 768GB of DDR5 memory, up to 100Gbps of networking bandwidth, with full support for Google Cloud Hyperdisk including Hyperdisk Balanced, Extreme, Throughput, and ML block storage options.

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