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Instance Typee2-standard-8c4d-standard-8-lssd
DetailsCost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments.

e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities
2 – Generation
standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – 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
8 – Number of CPUs
lssd – Local SSD
Instance FamilyCost optimizedGeneral-purpose
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM8 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM, 1 local SSD
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB31 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanAMD EPYC Turin
Coremark Score103957
Shared CPUnono
GPUnono
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancynoyes
Nested Virtualizationnono
Custom Shapesyesno
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks12816
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSINVMe
Local SSDnoyes
Max Local SSD12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenoyes
Hyperdisk Throughputnono
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.30x

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e2-standard-8
c4d-standard-8-lssd
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.26800.3885
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.29510.4751
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.30190.4810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.3019n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.3104n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.3109n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3109n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.3163n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.3163n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.3219n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.3219n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.28140.4074
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.3220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.3220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.3233n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.3243n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.3257n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.3307n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.3439n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.3439n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.3439n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.3453n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.29220.4167
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.3453n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.3454n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.3458n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.3511n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.3604n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.3750n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.3803n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.3833n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.4255n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.4289n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.29490.4218
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.29490.4284
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.29490.4366
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.29510.4366
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.29510.4448
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.29510.4565
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.2680n/a
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.26800.3700
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.26800.3700
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)n/a0.3700
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