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Local SSD

Local SSDs are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM instance. This tight coupling offers superior performance, very high input/output operations per second (IOPS), and very low latency compared to persistent disks. See Configure disks to meet performance requirements for details.

The Google Cloud optimized (-optimized-gcp) and accelerated (optimized-gcp-nvidia-*) versions of the Rocky Linux images now include the

October 6th, 2025

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Generally available: You can create and use Flex-start VMs. Flex-start VMs are virtual machine (VM) instances that can run for up to seven days, and that use the flex-start provisioning model

September 22nd, 2025

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Shielded VMs - September 17th, 2025 [Change]

September 17th, 2025

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Generally available: You can decrease a Compute Engine instance shutdown time by skipping the guest OS shutdown

September 15th, 2025

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Preview: H4D VMs, designed for high performance computing (HPC) workloads, are now in preview

September 12th, 2025

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Generally available: The accelerator-optimized A4X machine type, the first GPU VM to run on Arm, is available on Compute Engine

September 10th, 2025

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Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disks are available in all regions

September 9th, 2025

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Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability (Hyperdisk Balanced HA) volumes attached to C3 instances have increased performance limits for several C3 machine types

September 4th, 2025

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