Compare GCP Instances
| e2-highcpu-2 | c4-highmem-2 |
| Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x 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 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 2 GiB | 15 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids |
| 26092 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 18000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 2.54x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-highcpu-2 | c4-highmem-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0495 | 0.1284 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0545 | 0.1413 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0557 | 0.1413 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0557 | 0.1413 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0573 | 0.1413 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0574 | 0.1413 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0574 | 0.1446 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0584 | 0.1463 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.0584 | 0.1486 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.0594 | 0.1489 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.0594 | 0.1515 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0519 | 0.1284 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.0594 | 0.1515 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.0594 | 0.1515 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.0597 | 0.1543 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.0599 | 0.1543 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.0601 | 0.1553 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.0610 | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.0635 | 0.1584 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.0635 | 0.1605 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.0635 | 0.1649 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.0637 | 0.1649 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0539 | 0.1335 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.0637 | 0.1649 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.0637 | 0.1669 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.0638 | 0.1682 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.0648 | 0.1726 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.0665 | 0.1796 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.0692 | 0.1836 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.0702 | 0.2038 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.0707 | 0.2054 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.0785 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.0792 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0544 | 0.1335 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0544 | 0.1348 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0544 | 0.1348 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0545 | 0.1348 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0545 | 0.1399 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0545 | 0.1412 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0495 | 0.1284 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.0495 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0495 | 0.1284 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.1284 |