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Anbox Cloud on C4A Metal: Android, at Scale, Without Friction

Ubuntu, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026

Anbox Cloud now runs on Google Cloud C4A bare-metal instances for native-Arm Android at scale.

Canonical's Anbox Cloud platform has been optimized to run on Google Cloud's Axion-based C4A metal bare-metal instances, eliminating the performance penalties of nested virtualization.

This lets developers run large-scale Android systems directly on native Arm hardware while keeping cloud elasticity, which is especially valuable for Cuttlefish farms and system-level Android development.

Teams can match the fidelity of physical device labs with cloud scalability and deploy across C4A metal, C4A, and N4A instances from a single unified platform. The result is faster feedback cycles and reduced operational complexity for modern Android development.

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