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Instance Type	c4a-highmem-64-lssd	m3-megamem-64
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 64 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD	High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. m – Memory optimized 3 – Generation megamem – 14x RAM/CPU ratio 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	Memory optimized
Description	64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM, 14 local SSD	64 vCPUs, 976 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	512 GiB	976 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Ice Lake
Coremark Score		1094465
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	64	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	6000 GB	3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	yes
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.94x

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Geography	Region	c4a-highmem-64-lssd	m3-megamem-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.7722	7.2048
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	4.1535	7.9332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	4.2486	8.1148
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	4.3000	8.2033
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	4.3678	8.3424
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	4.4513	8.3576
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	4.4513	8.3576
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	4.4513	8.4911
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	4.5345	8.5017
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	4.5643	8.6609
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	4.5832	8.7174
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.7722	7.4999
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	4.6537	8.7538
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	4.7158	8.8886
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	4.8442	9.0028
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	4.9024	9.2524
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	4.9415	9.2524
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	5.0724	9.2524
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	5.3940	9.2942
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	5.9898	9.3629
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	9.4388
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	10.3029
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.9228	7.5002
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	11.4405
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	11.5277
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.9608	7.5699
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.9608	7.9253
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	4.1117	7.9332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	4.1535	7.9332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	4.1535	7.9332
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	4.1535	7.9332
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.7722	7.2048
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.7722	7.2048
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	3.7722	7.1812

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