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Instance Type	c2-standard-16	n4-highmem-16
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. n – General purpose 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Compute optimized	General-purpose
Description	Compute Optimized: 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM	16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
vCPUs	16	16
Memory	64 GiB	128 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Cascade Lake	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score	292366	354343
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
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	yes
Custom Shapes	no	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	no
Max Local SSD	3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff		Infinityx

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Geography	Region	c2-standard-16	n4-highmem-16
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	0.9522
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	1.0484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	1.0484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	1.0484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	1.0484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	1.0484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	1.0724
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	1.0855
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	1.1025
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	1.1045
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	1.1045
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	0.9522
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	1.1235
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	1.1235
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	1.1235
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	1.1446
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	1.1446
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	1.1521
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	1.1569
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	1.1747
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	1.1902
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	1.2228
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	0.9902
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	1.2228
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	1.2228
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	1.2378
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	1.2473
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	1.2804
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	1.3320
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	1.3616
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	1.5119
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	1.5235
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	n/a	0.9902
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	n/a	0.9998
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	n/a	0.9998
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	0.9998
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	1.0379
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	1.0474
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	n/a	0.9522
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	0.9522
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	0.9522

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