C4A Virtual Machines: Google’s Axion CPU Powered VMs
C4A provides regular, highmem, and highcpu machine series, and offers machine types with up to 72 vCPUs and 576 GB of DDR5 memory
C4A instances are now widely accessible through Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) with one- and three-year durations, reservations, Spot VMs, and FlexCUDs
To accommodate high-traffic applications, Tier_1 networking can offer up to 100 Gbps of bandwidth in addition to the typical 50 Gbps
C4A virtual machines are currently previewing in Dataflow, with support for CloudSQL, AlloyDB, and other services on the horizon
Make sure the operating system image you use is fully compatible with C4A before moving to C4A or setting up C4A virtual machines
To provide constant performance, C4A virtual machines (VMs) are housed within a single node with Uniform Memory Access (UMA) and support sole tenant nodes
C4A makes use of the newest storage options from Google Cloud, such as Hyperdisk Extreme and Hyperdisk Balanced