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Instance Typee2-highmem-8c2d-highmem-8
DetailsCost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments.

e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities
2 – Generation
highmem – 8x 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
2 – Generation
highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – Number of CPUs
Instance FamilyCost optimizedCompute optimized
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanAMD EPYC Milan
Coremark Score104083177882
Shared CPUnono
GPUnono
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancynono
Nested Virtualizationnono
Custom Shapesyesno
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSISCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSDnoyes
Max Local SSD3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenono
Hyperdisk Throughputnono
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.35x

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Per Hour
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e2-highmem-8
c2d-highmem-8
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.36160.4899
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.39810.5672
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.40720.5683
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.40720.5781
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.41870.5884
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.41940.5889
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.41940.5889
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.42670.5934
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.42670.6043
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.43430.6291
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.43430.6291
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.37970.5389
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.43430.6291
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.43430.6311
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.43610.6311
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.43750.6319
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.43930.6853
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.44610.6953
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.46350.6953
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.46350.7778
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.46350.7838
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.4659n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.39410.5394
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.4659n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.4659n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.4665n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.4737n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.4862n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.5059n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.5131n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.5171n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.5740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.5786n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.39780.5394
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.39780.5394
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.39780.5394
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.39810.5394
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.39810.5517
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.39810.5517
APACIndia (asia-south1)n/a0.3233
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.36160.4899
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.3616n/a
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.36160.4899
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