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Instance Typee2-highmem-8z3-highmem-8-highlssd
DetailsCost 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
8 – Number of CPUs
Highest block storage to compute ratios for storage-intensive workloads. File servers, Flash-optimized databases, Scale-out analytics.

z – Storage optimized
3 – Generation
highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – Number of CPUs
highlssd – High Local SSD
Instance FamilyCost optimizedStorage optimized
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 1 Local SSDs
vCPUs88
Memory64 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanIntel Sapphire Rapids
Coremark Score104083
Shared CPUnono
GPUnono
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancynono
Nested Virtualizationnoyes
Custom Shapesyesno
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSINVMe
Local SSDnoyes
Max Local SSD36000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenoyes
Hyperdisk Throughputnoyes
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.15x

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e2-highmem-8
z3-highmem-8-highlssd
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.36160.8232
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.39811.0155
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.40721.0290
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.40721.0571
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.41871.0783
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.41941.0783
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.41941.0784
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.4267n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.4267n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.4343n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.4343n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.37970.8561
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.4343n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.4343n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.4361n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.4375n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.4393n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.4461n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.4635n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.4635n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.4635n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.4659n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.39410.8643
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.4659n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.4659n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.4665n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.4737n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.4862n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.5059n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.5131n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.5171n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.5740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.5786n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.39780.8643
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.39780.8972
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.39780.9271
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.39810.9384
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.39810.9713
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.39810.9713
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.36160.8232
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.3616n/a
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.36160.8232
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)n/a0.8232
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