Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-2 | c4d-standard-2 |
| Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – 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 2 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 7 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 8 GiB | 7 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Ampere Altra | AMD EPYC Turin |
| 47054 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 4 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 12000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.16x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-2 | c4d-standard-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.0899 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.1154 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.0899 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.0935 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.0944 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.0990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.1012 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.1025 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.1061 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1109 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0770 | 0.0899 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.0809 | n/a |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.0950 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.0899 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.0899 |