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

e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities
2 – Generation
standard – 4x 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
standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio
16 – Number of CPUs
lssd – Local SSD
Instance FamilyCost optimizedGeneral-purpose
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 4 local SSD
vCPUs1616
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanGoogle Axion
Coremark Score208075
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 Diff1.00x1.31x

Regional Prices

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e2-standard-16
c4a-standard-16-lssd
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.53610.7184
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.59020.7910
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.60380.8091
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.60380.8189
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.62070.8318
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.62190.8477
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.62190.8477
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.63260.8477
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.63260.8636
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.64390.8692
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.64390.8729
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.56290.7184
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.64390.8863
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.64390.8981
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.64650.9226
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.64870.9338
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.65140.9411
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.66130.9660
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.68771.0273
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.68771.1407
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.68771.1498
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.6907n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.58430.7471
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.6907n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.6907n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.6916n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.7023n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.7208n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.7501n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.7607n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.7666n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.8510n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.8577n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.58970.7543
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.58970.7543
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.58970.7831
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.59020.7910
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.59020.7910
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.59020.7910
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.53610.7184
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.5361n/a
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.53610.7184
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)n/a0.7184
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