Arm-based Core

Custom silicon efficiency.

Custom Arm-based processors delivering up to 50% better price-performance and 60% less energy consumption than comparable x86 instances. Built for cloud-native workloads.

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Up to 50% better

Price-performance

60% less power

Energy

Armv9

Architecture

Broad compatibility

Software

Machine families

Purpose-built configurations for every workload profile — from web serving to GPU-accelerated ML training.

T4A

General Purpose Arm

Built on custom Armv9 silicon with per-core performance optimized for cloud-native web, microservices, and containerized workloads.

Web serversMicroservicesContainersCI/CD
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vCPUs

1 – 64

Memory

Up to 256 GB

Network

Up to 32 Gbps

Architecture

Armv9-A

Cloud-native by design.

Custom Arm silicon optimized for the workloads that power the modern web.

Custom Armv9 silicon

Purpose-designed for cloud workloads with high single-thread performance, advanced branch prediction, and large L2 caches.

Superior energy efficiency

60% lower energy consumption per workload-hour. Reduce both cloud costs and your carbon footprint simultaneously.

Broad software support

Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, SLES — all have Arm builds. Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX, PostgreSQL, and most modern stacks run natively.

Multi-arch CI/CD

Build and test for both x86 and Arm in the same pipeline. Our Arm-native CI runners eliminate slow emulation builds.

High bandwidth networking

Up to 32 Gbps network bandwidth per instance. Same VPC, load balancing, and DNS as x86 instances.

Per-second billing

Same per-second billing as x86 instances with sustained use discounts applied automatically.

Getting started

Launch your first instance in three steps. CLI, console, or API — your choice.

Terminal
ur compute instances create arm-web \
  --machine-type=t4a-standard-4 \
  --image-family=ubuntu-2404-lts-arm64 \
  --zone=eu-west1-b

Better price-performance everywhere.

From web serving to CI/CD — Arm delivers more for less.

Arm-native web infrastructure

NGINX, Node.js, and Go web services run with up to 40% better throughput per dollar on Arm. Container images re-build for arm64 with one Dockerfile change.

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Suggested configuration

T4A-standard-8 · NGINX · MIG

Estimate your costs

Create detailed configurations to see exactly how much your architecture will cost. Pay for what you use, down to the second.

Configuration 1

Estimated: $196.88/mo

Platform & Architecture

Compute Resources

GB

Storage

GB

Cost Optimization

Preemptible InstanceSave up to 70% — may be reclaimed
Config 1 cost$196.88

Cost details

$196.88

40% better energy efficiency vs. x86. Sustained use discounts apply.

Configuration 1
$196.88
4 vCPU × 16 GB Compute$186.88
Persistent Storage$10.00

Works seamlessly with

Kubernetes Engine
Container Registry
Cloud Build
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud SQL
IAM
Cloud Logging
VPC Networks

Frequently asked questions

Better performance per dollar.

Try Arm-based instances. Most workloads run without code changes.