Compute Engine C4A bare metal machine types GA
Two C4A bare metal machine types, c4a-standard-96-metal and c4a-highmem-96-metal, are now generally available for Compute Engine. These instances offer significant CPU and memory configurations and support advanced storage and networking capabilities. This release is relevant for users requiring high-performance bare metal compute on Google Cloud.
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Generally available : Two C4A bare metal machine types are generally available: c4a-standard-96-metal with 96 vCPUs and 384 GB of DDR5 memory c4a-highmem-96-metal with 96 vCPUs and 768 GB DDR5 memory These two machine types support Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Extreme, Hyperdisk Throughput, and Hyperdisk ML volume storage and up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. To learn more about the C4A machine family, read General-purpose machines . To see where you can create C4A bare metal instances, read Bare metal instances .
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#May_27_2026
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