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Instance Type	c4a-standard-64	c4d-standard-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 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
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM	64 vCPUs, 248 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	256 GiB	248 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	AMD EPYC Turin
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	yes
Maximum Persistent Disks	64	64
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	6000 GB	12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.00x

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Geography	Region	c4a-standard-64	c4d-standard-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.8736	2.9599
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.1641	3.4926
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.1641	3.4927
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.2365	3.4927
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.2758	3.5581
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.3273	3.6517
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	3.3909	3.8011
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	3.3909	3.8479
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	3.3909	4.7359
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	3.4544	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	3.4770	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.8736	2.9599
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	3.4914	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	3.5452	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	3.5924	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	3.6903	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	3.7350	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	3.7645	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	3.8641	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	4.1092	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	4.5630	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	4.5990	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	2.9884	3.0783
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.0172	3.1079
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.0172	3.2559
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.1322	3.2592
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.1641	3.3338
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.1641	3.3743
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.1641	3.4273
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.8736	2.9599
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.8736	2.9599
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	2.8736	2.9599

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