Compare GCP Instances
| t2d-standard-8 | e2-highcpu-16 |
| 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 8 – Number of CPUs | Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Cost optimized |
| 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM | Efficient Instance, 16 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM |
| 8 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 16 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC Milan | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan |
| 238534 | 207561 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | SCSI |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.17x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2d-standard-8 | e2-highcpu-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3380 | 0.3958 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.3806 | 0.4357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.3806 | 0.4458 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.3913 | 0.4458 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3920 | 0.4582 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3920 | 0.4591 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3988 | 0.4591 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.3988 | 0.4670 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.4059 | 0.4670 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.4059 | 0.4754 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.4059 | 0.4754 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3380 | 0.4156 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.4089 | 0.4754 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.4106 | 0.4754 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.4169 | 0.4773 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.4336 | 0.4789 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.4340 | 0.4809 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.4354 | 0.4882 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.4354 | 0.5082 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.4354 | 0.5082 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.4360 | 0.5082 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.4427 | 0.5099 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3718 | 0.4314 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.4545 | 0.5099 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.4729 | 0.5099 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.4796 | 0.5105 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.4796 | 0.5184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.4833 | 0.5322 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.5365 | 0.5538 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.5407 | 0.5616 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | n/a | 0.5659 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | n/a | 0.6282 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | n/a | 0.6332 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.3718 | 0.4353 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.3718 | 0.4354 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.3721 | 0.4354 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.3721 | 0.4357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.3721 | 0.4357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.3721 | 0.4357 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.2231 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.3380 | 0.3958 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 0.3958 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.3380 | 0.3958 |
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