Axion & Arm (C4A)
C4A runs on Google’s Axion Arm processor — strong price/performance for scale-out and cloud-native workloads that run on Arm.
Google Axion is Google’s custom Arm-based (arm64) server CPU. The C4A machine series runs on Axion and targets scale-out, cloud-native, and general compute workloads that have Arm builds, competing on price/performance with x86 compute-optimized machines.
Arm VMs require Arm-compatible software. Where a workload can run on Arm, C4A is often the cheapest way to buy compute-optimized capacity on GCP. This explorer marks C4A as arm64 in the architecture filter.
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