Google Axion instances now available on Elastic Cloud Hosted

Google Axion instances now available on Elastic Cloud Hosted New CPU-optimized Arm profile powered by Google Axion delivers up to 25% better price-performance for Elastic Cloud workloads. By Yuvraj Gupta April 23, 2026 Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share by Email Share by Email Print this page Print At Elastic, we are always focused on improving performance and cost efficiency for our customers running observability, security, and search workloads on Elastic Cloud Hosted. We are excited to introduce a new CPU-optimized (Arm) hardware profile powered by Axion — Google’s custom-designed, Arm-based processors. This new Arm-based hardware profile brings the next generation of Google Cloud compute to Elastic Cloud Hosted. The CPU-optimized (Arm) hardware profile delivers up to 25% better price-performance compared to the previous CPU-optimized generation, making it ideal for CPU-bound, indexing-heavy, and query-intensive workloads. Customers benefit from improved compute efficiency, faster data processing, and more cost-effective scaling across search, observability, and security workloads — all without changing how they build or operate on Elastic Cloud Hosted. This hardware profile is available in select Google Cloud regions. For the most up-to-date list of supported regions, refer to our regional availability documentation. How to create a deployment using Arm hardware profiles Creating a new deployment with the CPU-optimized (ARM) hardware profile is straightforward. In the Elastic Cloud console, start creating a new deployment by selecting a solution view (Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, or Elastic Security) for your deployment and then select Google Cloud as your cloud provider. When choosing the hardware profile, select CPU-optimized (Arm). More information on our hardware profiles and configurations can be found in our documentation. Once selected, continue with your usual configuration steps and create the deployment.  Elastic Cloud will automatically provision the deployment powered by Google Axion (Arm) instances. How to migrate an existing deployment to Arm hardware profiles Migrating an existing deployment to Arm hardware profiles is simple. From the Elastic Cloud console, click on an existing deployment that has been created.  On the deployment overview page next to your current hardware profile, select Edit. Select the CPU-optimized (Arm) hardware profile.  Preview the changes for the new hardware profile.  Click Update, then confirm the changes to migrate to the new hardware profile.  That’s it! Visit our documentation for more details. Try the new instances If you are ready to try out our latest instances, log in to your Elastic account and try the new instances. Or, if you are a brand new user, start your 7-day free trial on Google Cloud Marketplace today.    The release and timing of any features or functionality described in this post remain at Elastic's sole discretion. Any features or functionality not currently available may not be delivered on time or at all. SHARE Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share by Email Share by Email Print this page Print