Core concept

Families: N (general), E (cost-optimized), C (compute), M (memory), A (accelerator), T (Tau, ARM).

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How it works

Custom machine types: pick exact vCPU + RAM. Not fixed families. Massive flexibility vs AWS EC2.

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Trade-offs + gotchas

Live migration during host maintenance: VMs move seamlessly. Rare downtime. AWS lacks this.