Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-4 | c4-highcpu-4 |
| 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 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 4 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 8 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Ampere Altra | Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids |
| 94096 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 18000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.19x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-4 | c4-highcpu-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.1701 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.1873 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.1873 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.1873 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.1916 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.1939 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.1970 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.1973 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.1973 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.2007 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.2007 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.1701 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.2007 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.2045 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.2045 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.2058 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 0.2067 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 0.2099 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 0.2184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 0.2184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | n/a | 0.2184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 0.2211 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.1769 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | n/a | 0.2228 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | n/a | 0.2287 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | n/a | 0.2380 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | n/a | 0.2432 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | n/a | 0.2701 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | n/a | 0.2722 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.1769 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.1786 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.1786 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.1854 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.1871 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1873 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1540 | 0.1701 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.1618 | n/a |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.1899 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.1701 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.1701 |