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Instance Type	c4a-standard-32-lssd	n2-standard-32
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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – 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. n – General purpose 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 6 local SSD	32 vCPUs 128 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	128 GiB	128 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake
Coremark Score		553662
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	yes
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount		0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount		0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount		0.6
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	no	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	6000 GB	9000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	yes
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.11x

Regional Prices

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On Demand

Geography	Region	c4a-standard-32-lssd	n2-standard-32
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.4368	1.5539
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	1.5821	1.7500
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	1.6183	1.7992
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	1.6379	1.8025
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	1.6637	1.8025
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	1.6955	1.8336
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	1.6955	1.8336
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	1.6955	1.8663
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	1.7272	1.8663
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	1.7385	1.8664
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	1.7457	1.8664
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	1.4368	1.7093
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	1.7726	1.8740
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	1.7962	1.8803
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	1.8451	1.8880
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	1.8675	1.9169
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	1.8822	1.9934
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	1.9321	1.9955
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	2.0546	1.9955
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	2.2815	2.0020
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	2.2995	2.0020
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	2.0020
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.4942	1.7093
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	2.0045
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	2.0356
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	2.0894
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	2.1742
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	2.2048
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	2.2221
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	2.4666
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	2.4862
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.5086	1.7093
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.5086	1.7107
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	1.5661	1.7107
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	1.5821	1.7107
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	1.5821	1.7108
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	1.5821	1.7500
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	1.4368	1.5539
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	1.5539
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	1.4368	1.5539
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	1.4368	n/a

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