Introduction
Get started with Envoy Proxy on Google Axion C4A (Arm Neoverse V2)
Create a Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machine on GCP
Deploy Envoy on Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machines
Run baseline Envoy testing on a Google Axion C4A Arm VM
Benchmark Envoy on Google Cloud for Arm64 and x86_64 with Siege
Next Steps
Google Axion C4A is a family of Arm-based virtual machines powered by Google’s custom Axion CPU, which is built on Arm Neoverse V2 cores. Designed for high performance and energy efficiency, these VMs are well-suited to modern cloud workloads such as CI/CD pipelines, microservices, media processing, and general-purpose applications.
The C4A series can provide a cost-efficient alternative to x86 VMs while leveraging the scalability and performance characteristics of the Arm64 (AArch64) architecture on Google Cloud.
To learn more about Google Axion, see the blog Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs .
Envoy Proxy is an open-source, high-performance edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It handles service-to-service communication, traffic routing, load balancing, and observability - improving the reliability and security of microservices.
Envoy is widely used in service meshes, API gateways, and modern cloud environments. Learn more on the Envoy website and in the Envoy documentation .