Google added virtual machine (VM) types on Google Compute Engine including second-generation Intel Xeon scalable processor machines and new VMs for compute- and memory-heavy applications.

The former, available in beta, are general-purpose VMs. They provide greater than 20% price-performance improvement for many workloads and support up to 25% more memory per virtual CPU compared with first generation machines, according to Google. These N2 VMs offer a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources for general-purpose workloads such as web and application servers, enterprise applications, gaming servers, content and collaboration systems, and most databases.

They are available in Google’s U.S.-Central, Europe-West, and Asia-Southeast region now and will be available in most Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions in the next few months.

The second type of new VM is optimized for compute-intensive applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), video encoding, and massive multiplayer games. These C2 VMs provide the highest performance per core available on Google Cloud, according to the vendor.

IT consulting firm Burwood Group is an early customer, and said that after moving one of its customers to C2 VMs it saw a 40% improvement in performance, while using less hardware. “One of the critical jobs/processes took 82% less time to complete at 42% less cost,” said Dan Speck, vice president of technology research and development at Burwood Group, in a blog post.

These VMs are available in four GCP regions: U.S. Central, Europe-West, Asia-Northeast, and Asia-East, with expansion planned for U.S.-West, U.S.-East, and Europe-West in the coming weeks.

The third, new memory-optimized VMs, are available in beta and are SAP Certified. Google added 6 terabyte (TB) and 12 TB VMs to its memory-optimized machine types (M2), which it says makes them the largest SAP Certified VMs available from a public cloud provider.

They also include cloud features such as live migration and committed use discounts to migrate growing SAP databases from a 4 TB instance to the new 6 TB VM while keeping the current price.