Compare GCP Instances
| t2d-standard-4 | e2-highcpu-8 |
| 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 | 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 8 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Cost optimized |
| 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | Efficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM |
| 4 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 8 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC Milan | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan |
| 119587 | 104080 |
| 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-4 | e2-highcpu-8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1690 | 0.1979 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1903 | 0.2179 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1903 | 0.2229 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1957 | 0.2229 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1960 | 0.2291 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1960 | 0.2295 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1994 | 0.2295 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1994 | 0.2335 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.2030 | 0.2335 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.2030 | 0.2377 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.2030 | 0.2377 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1690 | 0.2078 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.2045 | 0.2377 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.2053 | 0.2377 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.2085 | 0.2387 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.2168 | 0.2394 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.2170 | 0.2404 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.2177 | 0.2441 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.2177 | 0.2541 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.2177 | 0.2541 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.2180 | 0.2541 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.2214 | 0.2550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1859 | 0.2157 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.2272 | 0.2550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.2364 | 0.2550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.2398 | 0.2553 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.2398 | 0.2592 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.2416 | 0.2661 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.2682 | 0.2769 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.2704 | 0.2808 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | n/a | 0.2830 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | n/a | 0.3141 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | n/a | 0.3166 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1859 | 0.2177 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1859 | 0.2177 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1860 | 0.2177 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1860 | 0.2179 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1860 | 0.2179 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1861 | 0.2179 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.1115 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1690 | 0.1979 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 0.1979 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1690 | 0.1979 |
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