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Instance Type	c4d-highmem-48	c4a-highmem-48-lssd
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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 48 – 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 48 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	48 vCPUs, 378 GB RAM	48 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM, 10 local SSD
vCPUs	48	48
Memory	378 GiB	384 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	AMD EPYC Turin	Google Axion
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	12000 GB	6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.01x

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Geography	Region	c4d-highmem-48	c4a-highmem-48-lssd
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.8911	2.8291
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.2959	3.1151
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.3476	3.1864
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.3537	3.2250
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.4113	3.2758
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.4115	3.3384
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	3.4115	3.3384
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	3.4754	3.3384
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	3.5667	3.4009
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	3.6139	3.4232
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	3.7127	3.4374
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.8911	2.8291
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	3.7584	3.4903
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	3.5368
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	3.6332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	3.6768
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	3.7062
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	3.8043
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	4.0455
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	4.4924
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.0067	2.9421
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.0357	2.9706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.1834	2.9706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.1834	3.0838
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.1834	3.1151
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.1834	3.1151
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.2562	3.1151
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.8911	2.8291
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.8911	2.8291
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	2.8911	2.8291

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