Superior Performance on Google Axion

Experience enhanced application performance and energy efficiency on Google Axion in the cloud. Google’s custom-designed Arm-based CPUs, Axion processors, are powering some of the most popular services and applications:

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.1

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.1

Personal assistance applications millions rely on daily such as Google Earth and YouTube.2

Benefits of Choosing Arm and Google Axion

Customers such as Spotify, Paramount, Couchbase, Databricks, and CloudStrike have adopted Google Axion instances to run their mission-critical workloads from databases to music and content streaming, to AI agents.

Up to 2x Better Performance

Compared to current generation x86 instances for prompt processing and token generation.3
Up to 35% Better Price-Performance

For Redis workloads on Google Axion based C4A VMs compared to current generation x86 VMs.1
Up to 30% Better Price-Performance

For MySQL on Google Axion based C4A VMs compared to current generation x86 VMs.1

Why Google Cloud Customers are Choosing Arm

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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 for general purpose computing that deliver up to 10% better performance-per-vCPU4 than the latest Arm-based instances available in the cloud. 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. Preliminary results not verified by Arm - C4A VMs Now GA: Our First Custom Arm-Based Axion CPU
2. Arm’s Mission to Help Tackle AI’s Insatiable Energy Needs
3. Google’s Axion Powered by Arm Neoverse: Faster Inference and Higher Performance for AI Workloads
4. Google Axion Processors: Arm-Based CPUs Custom-Built for Cloud Servers