Google Axion C4A is a family of Arm-based virtual machines built on Google’s custom Axion CPU, which is based on Arm Neoverse-V2 cores. Designed for high-performance and energy-efficient computing, these virtual machines offer strong performance for modern cloud workloads such as CI/CD pipelines, microservices, media processing, and general-purpose applications.
The C4A series provides a cost-effective alternative to x86 virtual machines while leveraging the scalability and performance benefits of Arm architecture in Google Cloud.
To learn more about Google Axion, see the Google blog Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs .
Apache Flink is an open-source, distributed stream and batch data processing framework developed under the Apache Software Foundation .
Flink is designed for high-performance, low-latency, and stateful computations on both unbounded (streaming) and bounded (batch) data. It provides a robust runtime and APIs in Java, Scala, and Python for building scalable, fault-tolerant data processing pipelines.
Flink is widely used for real-time analytics, event-driven applications, data pipelines, and machine learning workloads. It integrates seamlessly with popular systems such as Apache Kafka, Hadoop, and various cloud storage services.
To learn more, visit the Apache Flink official website and explore the documentation .