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Instance Type	c4-standard-144	c4-highmem-144-lssd
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 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 144 – 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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 144 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	144 vCPUs, 540 GB RAM	144 vCPUs, 1116 GB RAM, 24 local SSDs
vCPUs	144	144
Memory	540 GiB	1116 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids	Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	yes
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	18000 GB	18000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.31x

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Geography	Region	c4-standard-144	c4-highmem-144-lssd
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	7.1161	9.3844
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	7.8356	10.3332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	7.8356	10.3332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	7.8356	10.3332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	7.8356	10.5697
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	7.8356	10.6982
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	8.0149	10.8662
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	8.1124	10.8859
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	8.2398	10.8859
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	8.2547	11.0736
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	8.2547	11.0736
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	7.1161	9.3844
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	8.3970	11.0736
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	8.3970	11.2810
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	8.3970	11.2810
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	8.5543	11.5775
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	8.5543	11.7305
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	8.6101	12.0515
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	8.6461	12.0515
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	8.7792	12.1997
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	8.8952	12.2942
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	9.1385	12.6192
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	7.4008	9.7598
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	9.1385	13.1278
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	9.2510	13.4197
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	9.3226	14.9015
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	9.5690	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	9.9547	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	10.1761	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	11.2997	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	11.3858	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	7.4010	9.7601
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	7.4716	9.8534
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	7.4719	9.8536
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	7.4719	9.8536
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	7.7566	10.2290
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	7.8277	10.3332
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	7.1161	9.3844
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	7.1161	9.3844
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	7.1161	9.3844

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