Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-1 | c4a-highmem-1 |
| 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 1 – 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 1 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 1 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM | 1 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM |
| 1 | 1 |
| 4 GiB | 8 GiB |
| arm64 | arm64 |
| Ampere Altra | Google Axion |
| 23509 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 16 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 6000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.59x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-1 | c4a-highmem-1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.0589 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.0664 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.0672 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.0682 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.0696 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.0696 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.0709 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.0713 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.0727 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.0737 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.0757 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.0589 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.0766 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.0843 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.0613 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.0619 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.0642 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.0649 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.0649 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.0649 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.0649 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0385 | 0.0589 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.0404 | n/a |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.0475 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.0589 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.0589 |