Introducing Google Cloud's U4 Compute: Enabling Ultra-Low Latency Trading
Google, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
Google Cloud made its Ultra Low Latency Solution and new U4 machine family generally available for high-frequency trading.
Google Cloud announced general availability of its Ultra Low Latency (ULL) Solution, first unveiled at Google Cloud Next '26, along with the new U4 machine family.
The offering targets capital markets firms seeking the determinism of physical co-location combined with the scalability and automation of the cloud.
It relies on hardware-based multicast for market data, traffic capture with hardware-level timing accuracy for auditing and replay, and deterministic high-performance compute for latency-critical execution.