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Instance Typee2-highmem-16c4a-highmem-16
DetailsCost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments.

e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities
2 – Generation
highmem – 8x 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
Instance FamilyCost optimizedGeneral-purpose
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
vCPUs1616
Memory128 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanGoogle Axion
Coremark Score208433
Shared CPUnono
GPUnono
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancynoyes
Nested Virtualizationnono
Custom Shapesyesno
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks12832
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSINVMe
Local SSDnoyes
Max Local SSD6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenoyes
Hyperdisk Throughputnoyes
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.26x

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US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
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Geography
Region
e2-highmem-16
c4a-highmem-16
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.72320.9430
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.79621.0384
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.81451.0621
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.81451.0750
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.83741.0919
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.83891.1128
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.83891.1128
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.85341.1128
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.85341.1336
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.86861.1411
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.86861.1458
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.75940.9430
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.86861.1634
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.86861.1789
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.87211.2111
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.87511.2256
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.87871.2354
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.89211.2681
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.92701.3485
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.92701.4975
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.9270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.9317n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.78830.9807
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.9317n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.9317n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.9329n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.9474n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.9724n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)1.0119n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)1.0261n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)1.0342n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)1.1479n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)1.1571n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.79550.9902
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.79560.9902
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.79561.0279
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.79611.0384
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.79611.0384
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.79611.0384
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.72320.9430
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.7232n/a
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.72320.9430
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)n/a0.9430
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