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Instance Type	c4a-highcpu-72	n2d-standard-80
Details	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 highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 72 – 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. n – General purpose 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 80 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	72 vCPUs, 144 GB RAM	80 vCPUs 320 GB RAM
vCPUs	72	80
Memory	144 GiB	320 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan
Coremark Score		1425708
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	yes
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount		0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount		0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount		0.6
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	6000 GB	9000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.26x

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Geography	Region	c4a-highcpu-72	n2d-standard-80
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.7274	3.3797
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.0031	3.8064
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.0031	3.8064
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.0718	3.9133
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.1091	3.9204
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.1580	3.9204
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	3.2183	3.9880
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	3.2183	3.9880
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	3.2183	4.0594
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	3.2786	4.0594
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	3.3000	4.0594
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.7274	3.3797
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	3.3138	4.0764
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	3.3647	4.0894
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	3.4096	4.1063
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	3.5025	4.1694
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	3.5453	4.3358
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	3.5730	4.3403
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	3.6675	4.3403
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	3.9001	4.3542
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	4.3308	4.3542
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	4.3646	4.3542
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	2.8364	3.7176
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	4.3598
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	4.4274
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	4.5446
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	4.7287
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	4.7956
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	4.8329
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	5.3649
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	5.4075
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	2.8636	3.7178
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	2.8636	3.7178
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	2.9728	3.7208
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.0031	3.7208
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.0031	3.7208
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.0031	3.7210
APAC	India (asia-south1)	n/a	2.2306
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.7274	3.3797
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.7274	3.3797
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	2.7274	n/a

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