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Instance Typec4-standard-8a2-ultragpu-8g
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
4 – Generation
standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – Number of CPUs
Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads.

a – Accelerator optimized
2 – Generation
ultragpu – Extra large amound of GPU memory
8g – Number of GPUs
Instance FamilyGeneral-purposeAccelerator optimized
Description8 vCPUs, 30 GB RAMAccelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 1360GB RAM, 8 local SSD
vCPUs896
Memory30 GiB1360 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Emerald Rapids and Granite RapidsIntel Cascade Lake
Shared CPUnono
GPUnoyes
GPUs8
GPU Namenvidia-a100-80gb
GPU Total RAM (GiB)640
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancyyesyes
Nested Virtualizationyesyes
Custom Shapesnono
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size524288 GB524288 GB
Disk Interface TypeNVMeSCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSDyesyes
Max Local SSD18000 GB3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremeyesno
Hyperdisk Throughputyesno
Network InterfacesgVNIC, IDPFgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x99.25x

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c4-standard-8
a2-ultragpu-8g
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.3953n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.4353n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.4353n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4353n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4353n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4353n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.4453n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4507n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4578n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4586n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4586n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.3953n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4665n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.4665n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.4665n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.4752n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.4752n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.4783n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.4803n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.4877n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.4942n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.5077n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.4112n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.5077n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.5077n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.5100n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.5139n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.5179n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.5316n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.5530n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.5653n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.6278n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.6325n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.4112n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.4151n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.4151n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.4151n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.4309n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.4349n/a
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.3953n/a
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)n/a44.1906
APACSingapore (asia-southeast1)n/a49.6198
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.3953n/a
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)0.395345.3002
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