Compare GCP Instances
| c2d-highcpu-16 | c4a-standard-16 |
| 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 highcpu – 1-2x 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 |
| Compute optimized | General-purpose |
| 16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM | 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC Milan | Google Axion |
| 354771 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 32 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 3000 GB | 6000 GB |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.17x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c2d-highcpu-16 | c4a-standard-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.5997 | 0.7184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.6944 | 0.7910 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.6956 | 0.7910 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.7076 | 0.8091 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.7203 | 0.8189 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.7209 | 0.8318 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.7209 | 0.8477 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.7260 | 0.8477 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.7398 | 0.8477 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.7701 | 0.8636 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.7701 | 0.8692 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.6597 | 0.7184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.7701 | 0.8729 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.7726 | 0.8863 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.7726 | 0.8981 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.7736 | 0.9226 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.8389 | 0.9338 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.8512 | 0.9411 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.8512 | 0.9660 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.9522 | 1.0273 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.9595 | 1.1407 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 1.1498 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.6603 | 0.7471 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.6603 | 0.7543 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.6603 | 0.7543 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.6603 | 0.7831 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.6603 | 0.7910 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.6754 | 0.7910 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.6754 | 0.7910 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.3958 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.5997 | 0.7184 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.5997 | 0.7184 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.7184 |
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