Nope! Well not as advertised. There are instances, usually more expensive ones, where there are supposed to be local NVME disks dedicated to the instance. You

Nope! Well not as advertised. There are instances, usually more expensive ones, where there are supposed to be local NVME disks dedicated to the instance. You're totally right that providing good I/O is a big problem! And I have done studies myself showing just how bad Google Cloud is here, and have totally ditched Google Cloud for providing crappy compute service (and even worse customer service).