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Instance Typee2-smalle2-medium
DetailsCost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments.

e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities
2 – Generation
small – 1x RAM/CPU ratio
Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments.

e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities
2 – Generation
medium – 2x RAM/CPU ratio
Instance FamilyCost optimizedCost optimized
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/4 shared physical core) and 2 GB RAMEfficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/2 shared physical core) and 4 GB RAM
vCPUs22
Memory2 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan
Shared CPUyesyes
GPUnono
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancynono
Nested Virtualizationnono
Custom Shapesyesyes
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks16128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size3072 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSISCSI
Local SSDnono
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenono
Hyperdisk Throughputnono
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.00x

Regional Prices

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e2-small
e2-medium
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.01680.0335
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.01840.0369
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.01890.0377
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.01890.0377
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.01940.0388
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.01940.0389
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.01940.0389
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.01980.0395
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.01980.0395
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.02010.0402
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.02010.0402
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.01760.0352
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.02010.0402
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.02010.0402
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.02020.0404
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.02030.0405
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.02040.0407
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.02070.0413
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.02150.0430
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.02150.0430
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.02150.0430
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.02160.0432
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.01830.0365
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.02160.0432
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.02160.0432
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.02160.0432
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.02190.0439
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.02250.0451
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.02340.0469
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.02380.0475
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.02400.0479
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.02660.0532
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.02680.0536
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.01840.0369
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.01840.0369
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.01840.0369
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.01840.0369
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.01840.0369
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.01840.0369
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.01680.0335
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.01680.0335
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.01680.0335
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