Google Cloud says A5X Vera Rubin instances are generally available

Google Cloud's November 6 what's-new page says A5X instances, accelerated by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, are now generally available. Compute Engine docs describe bare-metal a5x-highgpu-4g-metal machines with four Rubin GPUs, 1,152 GB of HBM4, and 176 vCPUs, say the Compute Engine SLA does not apply, and say capacity is reserved through an account team, without naming regions. The AI infrastructure page still says those instances come later this year, and the docs table lists 22 TBps of HBM4 bandwidth against the 19.2 TB/s already on Nvidia's company record.