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Together, Google Cloud and AMD are helping to make digital innovation possible with breakthrough cloud capabilities. Google Cloud N2D Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors deliver enhanced data security—Confidential Computing—through AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), high processing performance and memory bandwidth for intensive workloads, and overall cost-efficient computing performance.

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Google Cloud and AMD bring you VM instances
powered by AMD EPYC™ CPUs that deliver:

Better performance

Up to

39%

better processing performance and
memory bandwidth for intensive
workloads, comparing N1 vs. N2D¹

Lower costs

Up to

13%

cost savings vs. N1 and N2D
non-confidential VMs¹

VM Instance	Workload	Use Case
N2D Standard	General Purpose	Web/App Server - Enterprise Apps - DevTest
N2D High-Mem	Memory Optimized	In-Memory Cache - High Performance DB - Big Data Analytics
N2D High-CPU	Compute Optimized	Computational Fluid Dynamics - Weather Modeling Machine Learning
N2D Confidential	Security	Memory encryption - VM and nodes encrypted in-use

VM Instance

N2D Standard

N2D High-Mem

N2D High-CPU

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Features

Flexibility, price,
performance,
and security

Unlock innovation

Create computing scenarios that
previously were not possible.

World-class performance

Built on Google Cloud’s resilient, scalable
global infrastructure, powered by AMD.

Flexible resource options

Choose from compute options
for a wide range of workloads
and use cases by industry.

Real-time encryption

Encrypt data in use so it stays
private even while being processed.

Lift-and-shift confidentiality

Transition seamlessly to
Confidential VMs with a click.

Advanced threat detection

Ensures the integrity of your
Confidential VM’s operating system.

Unlock innovation

Create computing scenarios that
previously were not possible.

World-class performance

Built on Google Cloud’s resilient, scalable
global infrastructure, powered by AMD.

Flexible resource options

Choose from compute options
for a wide range of workloads
and use cases by industry.

Real-time encryption

Encrypt data in use so it stays
private even while being processed.

Lift-and-shift confidentiality

Transition seamlessly to
Confidential VMs with a click.

Advanced threat detection

Ensures the integrity of your
Confidential VM’s operating system.

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Use Cases

All workloads welcome

Analytics

Innovations in analytics demand high performance for intensive workloads. Confidential Computing powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors helps make enhanced customer insights and experiences possible through artificial intelligence and machine learning. EPYC processors are available in a wide range of compute and memory configurations that support data integration, data laking, and data warehousing, all while protecting your most sensitive data in the cloud—even while it’s being processed.

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Financial services

Winning in a fast-changing, highly-competitive market demands innovative products and services. From reimagining regulatory reporting systems to implementing powerful loan analytics, Google Cloud—powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors—helps drive these innovations by delivering improved performance and memory bandwidth, detecting and managing risk, and creating a more flexible financial core, all without sacrificing confidentiality and security.

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Gaming

Gaming is a competitive and dynamic industry that serves more than 2.5 billion gamers around the world. These are incredibly sophisticated consumers who want entertainment at their fingertips, from any location and on a variety of devices.

Google Cloud—powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors—supports gaming innovators by providing the technologies to realize groundbreaking performance, foster developer collaboration, scale games globally, and gain insights through analytics to better understand gamer needs.

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Healthcare

From medicine to life sciences to genomics—data is the key to delivering exciting innovations that can change the world. Because the security of your data is paramount, Google Cloud and AMD collaborated closely to develop Confidential VMs built on 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors that ensure your sensitive data in the cloud is safe—even while it’s being processed—without sacrificing performance. Confidential VMs also offer memory encryption so you can even isolate your workloads in the cloud.

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Manufacturing

Innovations in manufacturing demand high performance and memory bandwidth for advanced operations like predictive analytics and anomaly detection. Confidential Computing powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors meets these demands while offering Google Cloud’s flexible resource and technology options like AutoML Vision—embedded in manufacturing and business workflows to automate quality control processes—and Anthos to support application modernization across on-prem and cloud infrastructures.

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Media and entertainment

Transforming media business models to meet fast-changing consumer and business demands is now possible thanks to Google Cloud powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors. With the performance and memory bandwidth necessary to support the agile delivery of content to multiple streaming platforms and a wide range of compute and memory configurations, Google Cloud supports innovative broadcast modernization initiatives.

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Retail

Google Cloud, powered by 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors, helps retailers transform their omnichannel shopping experiences to meet the demands driven by changing customer shopping and buying habits. Google Cloud delivers the performance and memory bandwidth for workloads like analytics, customer targeting, and price simulation, and flexible resource and technology options that help retailers apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance customer insights and experiences. And sensitive customer and credit card data in the cloud is always protected, even while it’s being processed.

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