Compare GCP Instances
| e2-highcpu-8 | c4-highmem-8 |
| 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 8 – 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 8 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 8 vCPUs, 62 GB RAM |
| 8 | 8 |
| 8 GiB | 62 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids |
| 104080 | |
| 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 | 2.57x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-highcpu-8 | c4-highmem-8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1979 | 0.5214 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.2179 | 0.5741 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.2229 | 0.5741 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.2229 | 0.5741 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.2291 | 0.5741 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.2295 | 0.5741 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.2295 | 0.5872 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.2335 | 0.5943 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.2335 | 0.6037 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.2377 | 0.6048 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.2377 | 0.6048 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2078 | 0.5214 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.2377 | 0.6152 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.2377 | 0.6152 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.2387 | 0.6152 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.2394 | 0.6152 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.2404 | 0.6267 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.2441 | 0.6267 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.2541 | 0.6308 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.2541 | 0.6334 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.2541 | 0.6432 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.2550 | 0.6517 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2157 | 0.5422 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.2550 | 0.6695 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.2550 | 0.6695 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.2553 | 0.6695 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.2592 | 0.6778 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.2661 | 0.6830 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.2769 | 0.7011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.2808 | 0.7293 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.2830 | 0.7455 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.3141 | 0.8279 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.3166 | 0.8342 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2177 | 0.5422 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2177 | 0.5474 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2177 | 0.5474 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2179 | 0.5474 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.2179 | 0.5683 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.2179 | 0.5735 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1979 | 0.5214 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.1979 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1979 | 0.5214 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.5214 |