# Storage-optimized Z4D machine family, now GA, is designed for IO-intensive workloads

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- Publisher: Google Cloud
- Author credit: bob Napaa
- Category: Cloud
- Original publication time: 2026-09-28T07:00:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T20:28:44Z
- Original source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/storage-optimized-z4d-vm-and-bare-metal-instances/
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-74dc16d2873ea64a89ed

## The brief

Google Cloud's Z4D storage-focused machine family targets databases, analytics and other workloads needing large local SSD capacity. Google specifies configurations reaching 84,000 GiB of local storage, with AMD EPYC processors and Titanium storage processing. Z4D VMs are available in selected regions, while bare-metal instances remain in preview through account-team access.

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