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| t2d-standard-2 | e2-highmem-4 |
| 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 2 – 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 4 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Cost optimized |
| 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM |
| 2 | 4 |
| 8 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| AMD EPYC Milan | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan |
| 59889 | 51736 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI, NVMe | SCSI |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 2.15x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2d-standard-2 | e2-highmem-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0845 | 0.1808 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0952 | 0.1990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0952 | 0.2036 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0978 | 0.2036 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0980 | 0.2093 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0980 | 0.2097 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0997 | 0.2097 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0997 | 0.2133 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1015 | 0.2134 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1015 | 0.2171 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1015 | 0.2171 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0845 | 0.1898 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1022 | 0.2172 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1027 | 0.2172 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1042 | 0.2180 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1084 | 0.2188 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1085 | 0.2197 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1089 | 0.2230 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1089 | 0.2318 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1089 | 0.2318 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1090 | 0.2318 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1107 | 0.2329 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0929 | 0.1971 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1136 | 0.2329 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1182 | 0.2329 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.1199 | 0.2332 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.1199 | 0.2368 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.1208 | 0.2431 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.1341 | 0.2530 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.1352 | 0.2565 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | n/a | 0.2585 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | n/a | 0.2870 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | n/a | 0.2893 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0929 | 0.1989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0929 | 0.1989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0930 | 0.1989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0930 | 0.1990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0930 | 0.1990 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0930 | 0.1990 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.0558 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0845 | 0.1808 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 0.1808 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0845 | 0.1808 |
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