C4N, now GA: Delivering cloud’s highest per vCPU network and block storage I/O for x86 workloads

As organizations scale modern workloads — from high-throughput databases and network/security appliances to real-time analytics and AI/ML inference — network and block storage performance can quickly become a bottleneck. Standard virtual machines often struggle to balance compute efficiency with the high-volume data-transfer demands of these applications. At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced C4N in preview , our first network- and block-storage-optimized Google Compute Engine instance that’s purpose-built to eliminate I/O bottlenecks for demanding enterprise applications, and today, it is ge