# Google Compute Cloud - Network capacity?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/google-compute-cloud-network-capacity/45598>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 20, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/google-compute-cloud-network-capacity/45598 "2015-12-20T13:27:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Logan\_Douglas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@Logan\_Douglas](https://community.wowza.com/u/Logan_Douglas)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/google-compute-cloud-network-capacity/45598/1 "2015-12-20T13:27:52Z")

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Hi Everyone

Google doesn’t seem to really give any detail on network performance metrics…

Which leads to the big question - How many users you can push onto one Wowza load balanced VM.

Has anyone used the big VM’s on google cloud - e.g the n1-highmem-32 ( 32 CPU, 208GB Ram ) instances? If so, what kind of bandwidth limits are imposed?

Any experiences with the Google cloud and bandwidth performance metrics would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/google-compute-cloud-network-capacity/45598/2 "2015-12-23T09:29:22Z")

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Hello,

If you’re concerned about hitting a bandwidth limitation on Google Cloud Platform, you may want to consider using a Content Distribution Network (CDN) to distribute your streams instead. You can use a Google Cloud Platform instance to push stream to a CDN and therefore limit the resources needed on the GCP platform. For more information on the CDN networks, please see the following article:

[Stream Live to CDN’s](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-push-streams-to-cdns-and-other-services-push-publishing)

Best regards,

Andrew