Google Cloud launches VM instances with 64 virtual CPU cores

Google today enhanced its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) public cloud infrastructure offering with new virtual machine (VM) instances that boast up to 64 virtual central processing unit (CPU) cores, effectively providing more computing power for applications. They’re available now in beta for all users and projects out of Google’s data center zones that run Intel’s Haswell and Broadwell chips.
There are three available flavors in the Google Compute Engine (GCE): a standard instanc