Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	n4a-standard-64	c4a-standard-64-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. n – General purpose 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 64 – 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 64 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM	64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, 14 local SSD
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	256 GiB	256 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	arm64
Processor	Google Axion	Google Axion
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory	yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	64
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	no	yes
Max Local SSD		6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.28x

Regional Prices

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On Demand

Geography	Region	n4a-standard-64	c4a-standard-64-lssd
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.4640	2.8736
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	3.1641
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	3.2365
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	3.2758
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	3.3273
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	3.3909
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	3.3909
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	3.3909
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	3.4544
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	3.4770
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	3.4914
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.5869	2.8736
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	3.5452
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	3.5924
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	3.6903
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	3.7350
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	3.7645
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	3.8641
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	4.1092
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	4.5630
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	4.5990
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	2.7123	2.9884
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	2.8083	3.0172
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	2.9069	3.0172
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.0387	3.1322
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	3.1641
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	3.1641
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	3.1641
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.4640	2.8736
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.4640	2.8736
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	2.4640	2.8736

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