Enterprises Can Now Run Real-Time Data Through Google Cloud's Most Advanced VMs
VentureBeat, Thursday, January 16th, 2025
A few months ago, Google Cloud launched C4A as the virtual machine (VM) instances powered by Axion, its first Arm-based CPU. Now, as the next step in this work, it is debuting C4A with Titanium SSDs - its custom-designed local disks aimed at enhancing storage and performance.
With this move, Google is bolstering its C4A portfolio and offering VMs that can further boost cloud performance for workloads requiring real-time data processing. The VMs, as the company puts it, combine ultra-low latency and high-throughput storage with cost efficiency, making an ideal package for running applications such as high-performance databases, analytics engines and search.
Currently, Google Cloud is making these Titanium SSD-equipped C4A VMs available in services such as Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Batch and Dataproc. Standard C4A VMs are also available in preview in Dataflow, with support for Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and other services in the pipeline.