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October 19, 2026 · Google CloudFeature

GKE supports storage-optimized Z4M machine series for nodes

You can now provision GKE nodes from storage-optimized Z4M machine series:

  • Manually: starting from GKE version 1.36.3-gke.1767000 and later.
  • Using compute classes, cluster autoscaler, node pool auto-creation and in Autopilot clusters: starting from GKE version 1.37.0-gke.4713000 and later.

Z4M machine series are suited for large parallel file systems to support AI/ML workloads and for I/O intensive workloads such as databases. GKE does not support Z4M bare metal instances at this time. See Machine support with GKE.

Text from the Google Cloud release notes, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Google Cloud release notes.

Source: Google Cloud release notes
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