Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-48 | c4-standard-48-lssd |
| 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 48 – 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 48 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 48 vCPUs, 192 GB RAM | 48 vCPUs, 180 GB RAM, 8 local SSDs |
| 48 | 48 |
| 192 GiB | 180 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Ampere Altra | Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids |
| 1118158 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 524288 GB | 524288 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 18000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.37x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-48 | c4-standard-48-lssd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 2.3720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 2.6119 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 2.6119 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 2.6119 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 2.6716 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 2.7041 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 2.7466 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 2.7516 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 2.7516 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 2.7990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 2.7990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 2.3720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 2.7990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 2.8514 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 2.8514 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 2.9264 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 2.9650 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 3.0462 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 3.0462 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 3.0837 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | n/a | 3.1075 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 3.1897 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 2.4669 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | n/a | 3.3182 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | n/a | 3.3920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | n/a | 3.7666 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 2.4670 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 2.4905 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 2.4906 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 2.4906 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 2.5855 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 2.6119 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 1.8480 | 2.3720 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 1.9413 | n/a |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 2.2790 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 2.3720 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 2.3720 |
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