Google announced the general availability of Custom Machine Types for its Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service offering, giving developers a chance to design their own compute instances to meet particular performance requirements. 

The move is designed to help businesses save money by only paying for the compute capacity they need, rather than having to choose from instance types with fixed amounts of virtual CPU, memory and storage.

With Custom Machine Types, developers can can build an instance with between 1 and 32 vCPUs, incremented by even numbers of processors. To that, they can add up to 6.5 “gibabytes” of memory per vCPU in an instance (1 gibabyte, or GiB, is equivalent to 1.074 gigabytes.) 

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