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Instance Type	z4m-highmem-32	c4d-highmem-32
Details	Highest block storage to compute ratios for storage-intensive workloads. File servers, Flash-optimized databases, Scale-out analytics. z – Storage optimized 4 – Generation highmem – 8x 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. c – Compute optimized 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Storage optimized	General-purpose
Description	Storage Optimized VM: 32 vCPUs, 244 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs	32 vCPUs, 252 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	244 GiB	252 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	AMD EPYC Turin
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	yes
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	168000 GB	12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IRDMA, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.01x

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Geography	Region	z4m-highmem-32	c4d-highmem-32
Europe	Finland (europe-north1)	2.2789	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	1.9274
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	2.1223
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	2.1708
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	2.1972
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	2.2317
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	2.2358
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	2.2742
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	2.2743
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	2.2743
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	2.3169
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	2.3778
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	1.9274
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	2.4092
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	2.4752
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	2.5056
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	3.0838
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	2.0045
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	n/a	2.0238
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	n/a	2.1201
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	n/a	2.1223
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	2.1223
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	2.1223
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	2.1223
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.0697	1.9274
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	1.9274
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	1.9274

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