Overview

Superior Performance on Google Axion

Run cloud and AI workloads more efficiently on Google Axion—Arm-based compute designed for hyperscaler-scale AI infrastructure. Google’s custom-designed Arm-based CPUs, Axion processors, are powering some of the most popular services and applications.

Up to 2x Better Performance

Compared to current generation x86 instances for prompt processing and token generation.1
Up to 35% Better Price-Performance

For Redis workloads on Google Axion based C4A VMs compared to current generation x86 VMs.2
Up to 2x Better Price-Performance

Compared with current-generation x86-based VMs, Axion-based N4A VMs deliver improved price-performance for scale-out web servers, Java, and compute-bound workloads.2
Workloads

Benefits of Choosing Arm and Google Axion

Customers such as Spotify, Paramount, Couchbase, and Databricks adopt Google Axion to run mission-critical cloud and AI workloads at scale. From databases to music and content streaming, to AI agents.

CPU-based AI inference and training, delivering up to 65% better price-performance and 60% better energy efficiency per vCPU for general purpose workloads for the Google Axion C4A Processor.2

Google Services such as BigTable, Spanner, BigQuery, Blobstore and Pub/Sub that are data-centric and foundational to building cloud applications.

Google internal services including Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Batch and Dataproc.2

Personal assistance applications millions rely on daily such as Google Earth and YouTube.3

Partners

Why Hyperscale Customers are Choosing Arm-Based Axion for Cloud Infrastructure

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Spotify

Tests on Axion Show Roughly 250% Better Performance for Workloads

On Axion compared to older generation processors.

IBM

Achieved up to 70% Responsiveness Improvement

For real-time data processing and analysis across their observability products compared to prior generation VMs.

Paramount Global

Achieved up to 33% Faster Content Encoding

Compared to older VMs.

As mentioned on the Arm-based Google Axion CPU C4A VMs blog.1

Unlock the Benefits of Arm-Based Google Axion Processors

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Axion is a family of custom Arm64-based processors delivering competitive performance-per-vCPU and scalable efficiency for AI-driven cloud workloads. They are the latest in a long line of custom Google silicon, from Tensor Processing Units for AI, to Video Coding Units for YouTube, and Tensor chips for Pixel devices. They are the latest in a long line of custom Google silicon, from Tensor Processing Units for AI, to Video Coding Units for YouTube, and Tensor chips for Pixel devices. Each of these significantly help improve performance and efficiency for resource-intensive applications used by businesses and consumers everywhere.

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  1. Google’s Axion Powered by Arm Neoverse: Faster Inference and Higher Performance for AI Workloads

  2. Preliminary results not verified by Arm - C4A VMs Now GA: Our First Custom Arm-Based Axion CPU

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