We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful performance improvements — up to 80% higher throughput for web serving and 30% better performance for general computing workloads compared to the previous generation. This improvement in performance enables you to maximize your cloud investment and achieve more with fewer resources.
Beyond raw performance, C4D supports key enterprise capabilities including our first AMD-based Bare Metal instances offering direct access to all the resources on the server for maximum control and performance (bare metal will be available in the coming weeks); and the next-gen Titanium Local SSD, which enhances I/O-intensive operations with up to 35% lower latency vs. the prior generation. These hardware advancements are paired with enterprise-grade security and reliability, featuring a 30-day uptime window between planned maintenance events. With this combination of peak performance, expanded capabilities and enterprise-grade controls, C4D is suited for a wide range of general-purpose computing workloads, from databases, AI inference, web, application and game servers, to mission-critical business applications.
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Supercharge your workloads while optimizing costs
General computing and web serving workloads
For general-purpose computing workloads, C4D VMs deliver up to 25% better performance per dollar than C3D, based on estimated SPECrate®2017_int_base benchmark results. C4D also delivers up to 20% better performance per dollar than comparable, generally available offerings from other cloud providers on the same benchmark. This helps you meet demanding performance requirements for a wide range of workloads — including web servers, game, ad and application servers, and containerized microservices — while optimizing resource usage and reducing costs.
For web-serving workloads, C4D leverages AMD Turin’s improved L3 cache efficiency and next-generation branch prediction to deliver higher throughput/vcpu, resulting in up to 75% increase in price-performance compared to the previous-generation C3D. This drives faster page rendering and a smoother end-user experience, with up to 45% higher price-performance compared to competitive offerings.
“AppLovin, a global leader in mobile advertising, is constantly looking for cutting-edge infrastructure innovations to deliver exceptional performance for our clients. Google Cloud’s C4D VMs enable us to do just that — driving up to 40% improvement over the prior generation, which leads to significant efficiency gains and latency reduction.” – Basil Shikin, Chief Technology Officer, AppLovin
“On C4D, our ad servers perform 191% faster than N2D, and 81% faster than C3D to serve the same amount of ad-requests. This improved performance comes at a lower overall cost because we can run a smaller number of more efficient nodes, but not only that, for us more performance/less latency means not only savings but more revenue since the fill-rate for ads (successful bid/ask matching) grows exponentially.” – Pablo Loschi, Principal Systems Engineer, Verve Group
“C4D Performance was impressive — most workloads, including page rendering & video processing, were 40+% faster than the previous generation. This kind of improvement makes a real difference to users of platforms like SpareRoom.” – Dimitrios Kechagias, Principal Developer, Cloud Infrastructure Optimisation Lead, SpareRoom
Databases and data-intensive applications
The C4D family is purpose-built for data-intensive applications such as databases and data analytics, by offering the latest generation compute and advanced storage capabilities. C4D’s high core frequency of up to 4.1Ghz and improved Instructions Per Clock (IPC) accelerate transactional workloads such as MySQL by up to 55% versus the prior generation with faster, more efficient query processing. For applications that require large datasets in memory, C4D provides VM sizes scaling up to 384vcpu and 3TB of high-bandwidth DDR5 memory. To scale database I/O performance, customers benefit from the integrated Hyperdisk Extreme storage with up to 500k IOPS and the new Titanium Local SSD that reduces read latency by 35% compared to the prior generation. Together, these capabilities increase performance and responsiveness for your mission-critical databases, delivering up to 35% better price-performance for Redis and MySQL workloads than comparable generally available VMs from other hyperscalers.
“We are constantly looking for advanced computing options to improve experience for the players. With Google’s new C4D VMs, we see drastically improved performance for our observability stack which handles 50k inserts/sec concurrently. Compared to C3D, we were able to cut our resource footprint by half, while reducing CPU load by 35% and seeing a 30% improvement in indexing latency. We look forward to adopting C4D at scale.” – Grzegorz Dlugolecki, Principal Cloud & Kubernetes Engineer, Chess.com
“Across over 100 benchmarks, going from the C3D to C4D yielded 1.7x the performance! This is a heck of a generational improvement for Google Cloud or any public cloud provider for that matter. C4D performance is extremely compelling and opens up a lot of new compute possibilities in the public cloud.” – Michael Larabel, Founder and Principal Author, Phoronix (Read the full study here)
AI inference and complex computations
C4D’s processor offers full support for AVX-512 with a 512 bit datapath, a 50% increase in memory channels, and higher IPC compared to the prior generation. This provides significant improvements for compute-heavy tasks such as CPU-based inference, matrix operations, financial modeling and simulations, and analytics. For recommendation inference, C4D VMs demonstrate an up to 75% price-performance uplift compared to C3D and up to 35% better price-performance versus the comparable competitive offerings from leading hyperscalers, to accelerate the time to results and reduce TCO.
“Silk has tested C4D, and found it to deliver a dramatic increase of up to 40% in performance compared to the previous generation, C3D, enabling our customers to enjoy significant gains in efficiency and agility of their mission critical workloads, over the transactional, analytics and AI use cases.” – Adik Sokolovski, Chief R&D Officer, Silk
Security, maintenance controls and shapes
With Titanium, C4D offers improved infrastructure performance, lifecycle management, reliability, and security. Storage and network management is offloaded to the Titanium adapter, reserving the host resources for running customer workloads.
Titanium also enables our first AMD-based Bare Metal instances, which provide direct access to server resources. Bare metal instances are ideal for workloads that require low-level system access — like custom hypervisors, container platforms, or applications with specialized performance or licensing needs. Sectors such as financial services, security, and private cloud platforms will particularly benefit from C4D Bare Metal offerings.
C4D VMs support Hyperdisk, Google Cloud’s workload-optimized block storage. Designed for high performance and scalability, Hyperdisk is cost-efficient, easy to manage at scale, and enterprise-ready. C4D VMs are compatible with Hyperdisk Balanced and Extreme, supporting up to 512 TiB of capacity per instance. With up to 320K IOPS per instance, Hyperdisk Balanced offers an optimal mix of performance and cost-efficiency, for a broad range of workloads. Hyperdisk Extreme delivers ultra-low latency and supports up to 500K IOPS and 10,000 MiB/s throughput per instance — making it well-suited for demanding workloads like databases and caching layers. With real-time tuning of IOPS and bandwidth, Hyperdisk helps ensure your applications always have the storage resources they need.
To enhance security, C4D VMs support confidential computing with AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (AMD SEV), utilizing hardware-based memory encryption to help protect your data and applications while in use. This makes C4D an excellent choice for sensitive data, privileged information, PII, and workloads subject to data privacy regulations and compliance requirements.
Experience C4D today
C4D delivers exceptional performance, scalability, and efficiency for today’s most demanding workloads. Powered by next-gen AMD processors, Titanium infrastructure, and Hyperdisk storage, C4D delivers the performance and capabilities needed to make the most of your cloud resources. Whether you’re just getting started with Compute Engine or planning to upgrade from previous generations, C4D offers a clear path to greater efficiency and performance. C4D is now available in 12 regions and 28 zones — check regional availability on our Regions and Zones page and deploy your first instance in the Google Cloud console or with Google Kubernetes Engine.
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