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Instance Type	c4a-standard-8-lssd	n4-standard-8
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 8 – 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 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 8 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 2 local SSD	8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
vCPUs	8	8
Memory	32 GiB	32 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score		177655
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	263168 GB	263168 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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Geography	Region	c4a-standard-8-lssd	n4-standard-8
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.3592	0.3628
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	0.3955	0.3995
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	0.4046	0.3995
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	0.4095	0.3995
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	0.4159	0.3995
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	0.4239	0.3995
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	0.4239	0.4086
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	0.4239	0.4136
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	0.4318	0.4201
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	0.4346	0.4208
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	0.4364	0.4208
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	0.3592	0.3628
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	0.4431	0.4281
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	0.4491	0.4281
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	0.4613	0.4281
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	0.4669	0.4361
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	0.4706	0.4361
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	0.4830	0.4390
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	0.5136	0.4408
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	0.5704	0.4476
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	0.5749	0.4535
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	0.4659
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	0.3736	0.3773
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	0.4659
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	0.4659
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	0.4716
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	0.4753
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	0.4879
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	0.5075
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	0.5188
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	0.5761
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	0.5805
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	0.3772	0.3773
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	0.3772	0.3809
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	0.3915	0.3809
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	0.3955	0.3809
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	0.3955	0.3955
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	0.3955	0.3991
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.3592	0.3628
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	0.3592	0.3628
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	0.3592	0.3628

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