A new standard for price-performance

In today's competitive environment, IT leaders are faced with supporting application scale, rolling out more features, and enabling high-bar customer experiences. This creates a direct and complex challenge: finding the right balance between performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) for the general-purpose workloads that power everyday business operations.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the N4D machine series, the latest addition to Google Compute Engine’s cost-optimized, general-purpose portfolio. Addressing a wide range of workloads, such as web and application servers, data analytics platforms, and containerized microservices, N4D provides a flexible and price-performant solution.

The N4D machine series combines Google's Titanium infrastructure with 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ “Turin” processors, delivering up to 3.5x the throughput for web-serving workloads vs. the previous-generation N2D.  N4D offers predefined shapes of up to 96 vCPUs and 768 GB of DDR5 memory, up to 50 Gbps of networking bandwidth ...