Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	t2a-standard-4	c4n-standard-4
Details	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 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	General-purpose	Network optimized
Description	4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM	4 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM
vCPUs	4	4
Memory	16 GiB	15 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Ampere Altra	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score	94096
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount	0.8
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount	0.6
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount	0.4
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	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	no	yes
Max Local SSD		12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.94x

Regional Prices

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On Demand

Geography	Region	t2a-standard-4	c4n-standard-4
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	0.3605
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.1540	n/a
Europe	Netherlands (europe-west4)	0.1618	n/a
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	0.3163
North America	Oregon (us-west1)	n/a	0.3163
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	0.1899	n/a
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	0.3163

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