Compare GCP Instances
| e2-highcpu-16 | c4a-highmem-16 |
| 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 16 – 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 16 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 16 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM |
| 16 | 16 |
| 16 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Google Axion |
| 207561 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 32 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 6000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 2.24x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-highcpu-16 | c4a-highmem-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3958 | 0.9430 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.4357 | 1.0384 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.4458 | 1.0621 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.4458 | 1.0750 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.4582 | 1.0919 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.4591 | 1.1128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.4591 | 1.1128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.4670 | 1.1128 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.4670 | 1.1336 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.4754 | 1.1411 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.4754 | 1.1634 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4156 | 0.9430 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.4754 | 1.1789 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.4754 | 1.2111 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.4773 | 1.2256 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.4789 | 1.3485 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.4809 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.4882 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.5082 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.5082 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.5082 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.5099 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4314 | 0.9807 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.5099 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.5099 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.5105 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.5184 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.5322 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.5538 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.5616 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.5659 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.6282 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.6332 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4353 | 0.9902 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.4354 | 0.9902 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.4354 | 1.0279 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.4357 | 1.0384 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.4357 | 1.0384 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.4357 | 1.0384 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.3958 | 0.9430 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.3958 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.3958 | 0.9430 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.9430 |