Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-2 | c2d-highcpu-2 |
| Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – 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 2 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Compute optimized |
| 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 8 GiB | 4 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Ampere Altra | AMD EPYC Milan |
| 47054 | 44678 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| no | yes |
| 3000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.05x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-2 | c2d-highcpu-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.0750 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.0885 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.0900 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.0901 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.0901 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.0907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.0925 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.0963 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.0963 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.0963 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.0966 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.0825 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.0966 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.1049 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.1064 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.1190 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.0825 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.0825 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.0825 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.0825 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.0844 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.0844 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.0868 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | n/a | 0.0495 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0770 | 0.0750 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.0809 | n/a |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.0950 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.0750 |