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Instance Type	c4a-standard-32	n4-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	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 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM	32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	128 GiB	128 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score		706433
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
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	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	no
Max Local SSD	6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.01x

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On Demand

Geography	Region	c4a-standard-32	n4-standard-32
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.4368	1.4512
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	1.5821	1.5979
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	1.5821	1.5979
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	1.6183	1.5979
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	1.6379	1.5979
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	1.6637	1.5979
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	1.6955	1.6345
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	1.6955	1.6544
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	1.6955	1.6803
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	1.7272	1.6834
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	1.7385	1.6834
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	1.4368	1.4512
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	1.7457	1.7124
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	1.7726	1.7124
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	1.7962	1.7124
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	1.8451	1.7445
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	1.8675	1.7445
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	1.8822	1.7560
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	1.9321	1.7632
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	2.0546	1.7903
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	2.2815	1.8140
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	2.2995	1.8636
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.4942	1.5092
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	1.8636
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	1.8636
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	1.8866
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	1.9011
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	1.9514
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	2.0301
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	2.0752
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	2.3044
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	2.3219
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.5086	1.5092
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.5086	1.5238
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	1.5661	1.5238
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	1.5821	1.5238
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	1.5821	1.5818
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	1.5821	1.5963
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	1.4368	1.4512
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	1.4368	1.4512
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	1.4368	1.4512

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