Compare GCP Instances
| e2-standard-8 | c4-standard-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 standard – 4x 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 8 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM | 8 vCPUs, 30 GB RAM |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 30 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids |
| 103957 | |
| 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 | 1.44x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-standard-8 | c4-standard-8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2680 | 0.3953 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.2951 | 0.4353 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.3019 | 0.4353 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.3019 | 0.4353 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3104 | 0.4353 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3109 | 0.4353 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3109 | 0.4453 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.3163 | 0.4507 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.3163 | 0.4578 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.3219 | 0.4586 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.3219 | 0.4586 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2814 | 0.3953 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.3220 | 0.4665 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.3220 | 0.4665 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.3233 | 0.4665 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.3243 | 0.4752 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.3257 | 0.4752 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.3307 | 0.4783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.3439 | 0.4803 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.3439 | 0.4877 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.3439 | 0.4942 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.3453 | 0.5077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2922 | 0.4112 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.3453 | 0.5077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.3454 | 0.5077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.3458 | 0.5139 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.3511 | 0.5179 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.3604 | 0.5316 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.3750 | 0.5530 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.3803 | 0.5653 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.3833 | 0.6278 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.4255 | 0.6325 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.4289 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2949 | 0.4112 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2949 | 0.4151 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2949 | 0.4151 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2951 | 0.4151 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.2951 | 0.4309 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.2951 | 0.4349 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.2680 | 0.3953 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.2680 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.2680 | 0.3953 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.3953 |