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Instance Type	c4n-highcpu-4	c4n-standard-4
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 highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – 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 4 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Network optimized	Network optimized
Description	4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM	4 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM
vCPUs	4	4
Memory	8 GiB	15 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	Intel Emerald Rapids
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	yes
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	12000 GB	12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.16x

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Geography	Region	c4n-highcpu-4	c4n-standard-4
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.3103	0.3605
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	0.2722	0.3163
North America	Oregon (us-west1)	0.2722	0.3163
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	0.2722	0.3163

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