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Instance Type	c2-standard-16	c4d-standard-16-lssd
Details	High-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 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs	High-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 16 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD
Instance Family	Compute optimized	General-purpose
Description	Compute Optimized: 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM	16 vCPUs, 62 GB RAM, 1 local SSD
vCPUs	16	16
Memory	64 GiB	62 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Cascade Lake	AMD EPYC Turin
Coremark Score	292366
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	yes	no
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount	0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount	0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount	0.6
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	3000 GB	12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff		Infinityx

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	c2-standard-16	c4d-standard-16-lssd
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	0.7770
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	0.8148
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	0.9129
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	n/a	0.7400
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	0.7400
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	0.7400