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Instance Type	z4m-highmem-32	c4-highmem-32
Details	Highest block storage to compute ratios for storage-intensive workloads. File servers, Flash-optimized databases, Scale-out analytics. z – Storage optimized 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – 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 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Storage optimized	General-purpose
Description	Storage Optimized VM: 32 vCPUs, 244 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs	32 vCPUs, 248 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	244 GiB	248 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	yes
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	168000 GB	18000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IRDMA, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.13x

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Geography	Region	z4m-highmem-32	c4-highmem-32
Europe	Finland (europe-north1)	2.2789	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	2.0854
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	2.2963
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	2.2963
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	2.2963
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	2.2963
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	2.2963
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	2.3488
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	2.3774
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	2.4147
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	2.4191
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	2.4191
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	2.0854
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	2.4607
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	2.4608
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	2.4608
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	2.4608
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	2.5069
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	2.5069
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	2.5232
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	2.5338
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	2.5728
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	2.6068
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	2.1688
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	2.6781
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	2.6781
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	2.6781
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	2.6902
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	2.7111
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	2.7321
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	2.8043
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	2.9173
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	2.9822
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-39)	n/a	3.3114
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	n/a	2.1689
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-40)	n/a	3.3367
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	n/a	2.1896
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	n/a	2.1897
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	2.1897
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	2.2731
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	2.2940
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.0697	2.0854
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	2.0854
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	2.0854

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