Google Axion C4A is a family of Arm-based virtual machines powered by Google’s custom Axion CPU, built on Arm Neoverse-V2 cores. These instances deliver high performance and energy efficiency for modern cloud workloads, including 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 the Arm architecture in Google Cloud.
For more information on Google Axion, see the Google blog Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs .
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 engine. It enables you to build scalable server-side applications, APIs, and backend services using JavaScript. Node.js features an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, making it highly efficient for handling concurrent connections. Node.js is widely used for web servers, real-time applications, microservices, and cloud-native backend services.
For more information on Node.js, see the Node.js website and the Node.js documentation .