Compare GCP Instances
| c4a-standard-2 | c2d-standard-2 |
| 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 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Compute optimized |
| 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 8 GiB | 8 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Google Axion | AMD EPYC Milan |
| 44674 | |
| 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 | 1.04x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-standard-2 | c2d-standard-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0898 | 0.0908 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0989 | 0.1071 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1011 | 0.1091 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1024 | 0.1091 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1040 | 0.1091 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1060 | 0.1099 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1060 | 0.1120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1060 | 0.1166 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1079 | 0.1166 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1087 | 0.1166 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1108 | 0.1170 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0898 | 0.0999 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1153 | 0.1170 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1167 | 0.1270 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1284 | 0.1289 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1437 | 0.1442 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0934 | 0.1000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0943 | 0.1000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0943 | 0.1000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0979 | 0.1000 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0989 | 0.1023 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0989 | 0.1023 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0989 | 0.1051 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | n/a | 0.0599 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0898 | 0.0908 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0898 | 0.0908 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.0898 | n/a |