Google Cloud has introduced support for N2 general-purpose virtual machine (VM) types on Elastic Cloud, powered by Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable processors, offering a notable improvement in price-performance over the previous N1 machines. Users provisioning an Elastic deployment on Google Cloud will automatically use N2 VM types, with options to select from default or custom configurations to optimize vCPU, RAM, and storage according to specific use cases. Elastic Cloud also provides deployment templates that align with the new hot data tier instance configurations, simplifying hardware selection. Existing deployments can be migrated to N2 VM types following a process that includes creating a snapshot, selecting settings, choosing a deployment template, and restoring the snapshot. For those interested, Elastic Cloud offers a free 14-day trial to explore these new features.