Compare GCP Instances
| c2-standard-8 | c4d-standard-8-lssd |
| 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 8 – 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 8 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD |
| Compute optimized | General-purpose |
| Compute Optimized: 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM | 8 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM, 1 local SSD |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 31 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Cascade Lake | AMD EPYC Turin |
| 146712 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 0.8678 | |
| 0.733 | |
| 0.6 | |
| yes | yes |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 16 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 3000 GB | 12000 GB |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c2-standard-8 | c4d-standard-8-lssd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.3885 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.4751 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.4810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.4074 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.4167 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.4218 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.4284 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.4366 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.4366 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.4448 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.4565 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 0.3700 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.3700 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.3700 |
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