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Instance Typet2a-standard-8e2-highmem-16
DetailsTau 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
highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio
16 – Number of CPUs
Instance FamilyGeneral-purposeCost optimized
Description8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAMEfficient Instance, 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
vCPUs816
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAmpere AltraIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan
Coremark Score188206208433
Shared CPUnono
GPUnono
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount0.8
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount0.6
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount0.4
Sole Tenancynono
Nested Virtualizationnono
Custom Shapesnoyes
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeNVMeSCSI
Local SSDnono
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenono
Hyperdisk Throughputnono
Network InterfacesgVNICgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.59x

Regional Prices

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t2a-standard-8
e2-highmem-16
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a0.7232
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.7962
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.8145
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.8145
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.8374
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.8389
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.8389
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.8534
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.8534
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.8686
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.8686
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a0.7594
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.8686
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.8686
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.8721
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.8751
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.8787
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.8921
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.9270
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.9270
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.9270
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.9317
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a0.7883
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.9317
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.9317
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.9329
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.9474
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)n/a0.9724
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)n/a1.0119
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)n/a1.0261
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)n/a1.0342
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)n/a1.1479
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)n/a1.1571
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a0.7955
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a0.7956
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a0.7956
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.7961
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.7961
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.7961
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.30800.7232
EuropeNetherlands (europe-west4)0.3236n/a
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)n/a0.7232
APACSingapore (asia-southeast1)0.3798n/a
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)n/a0.7232
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