Compare GCP Instances
| c4a-standard-4 | c2d-highmem-4 |
| 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 4 – 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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Compute optimized |
| 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 32 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Google Axion | AMD EPYC Milan |
| 86956 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 16 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| yes | yes |
| 6000 GB | 3000 GB |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.39x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-standard-4 | c2d-highmem-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1796 | 0.2449 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.2047 | 0.2890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.2080 | 0.2942 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.2119 | 0.2944 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.2119 | 0.2944 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.2119 | 0.2967 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.2159 | 0.3022 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.2173 | 0.3145 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.2216 | 0.3145 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.2306 | 0.3145 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.2334 | 0.3156 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1796 | 0.2694 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.2568 | 0.3156 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.2874 | 0.3426 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.3477 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.3889 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1868 | 0.2697 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1886 | 0.2697 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1886 | 0.2697 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1958 | 0.2697 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1978 | 0.2758 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1978 | 0.2758 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.2023 | 0.2836 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | n/a | 0.1617 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1796 | 0.2449 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1796 | 0.2449 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.1796 | n/a |