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Instance Type	c3d-highmem-360-lssd	c4d-highmem-384-metal
Details	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 3 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 360 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD	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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 384 – Number of CPUs metal – Bare metal instance
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	360 vCPUs, 2880 GB RAM, 32 local SSDs	384 vCPUs, 3072 GB RAM
vCPUs	360	384
Memory	2880 GiB	3072 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC Genoa	AMD EPYC Turin
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	12000 GB	12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.08x

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On Demand

Geography	Region	c3d-highmem-360-lssd	c4d-highmem-384-metal
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	24.0286	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	25.5254	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	27.1964	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	22.0446	n/a
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	n/a	28.7410
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	22.0446	n/a
Europe	Sweden (europe-north2)	23.1468	n/a
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	23.2966

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