Generally available: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place backups of the following types of disks

## Feature **Generally available**: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place backups of the following types of disks: * Hyperdisk Balanced * Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability * Hyperdisk Extreme Instant snapshots are ideal for rapid data restoration only within the same location as the source disk. You can use an instant snapshot to create a new disk in under a minute. For more information, see [About instant snapshots](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/instant-snapshots). ## Feature **Generally available**: You can specify a custom ephemeral internal IPv6 address when creating an instance. For more information, see [Create instances that use IPv6 addresses](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-ipv6-instance). ## Feature **Generally available**: Asynchronous Replication is now generally available for Hyperdisk Balanced, Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability, and Hyperdisk Extreme disks. Asynchronous Replication provides low-RPO and low-RTO block storage replication for cross-region disaster recovery. For more information, see [About Asynchronous Replication](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/async-pd/about).