Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	e2-standard-32	t2a-standard-32
Details	Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs	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 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Cost optimized	General-purpose
Description	Efficient Instance, 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM	32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	128 GiB	128 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan	Ampere Altra
Coremark Score	417535	748166
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount		0.8
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount		0.6
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount		0.4
Sole Tenancy	no	no
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI	NVMe
Local SSD	no	no
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.04x

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Geography	Region	e2-standard-32	t2a-standard-32
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.0722	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	1.1804	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	1.2075	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	1.2075	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	1.2415	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	1.2437	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	1.2437	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	1.2652	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	1.2652	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	1.2877	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	1.2877	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	1.1258	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	1.2878	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	1.2878	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	1.2931	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	1.2973	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	1.3027	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	1.3227	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	1.3755	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	1.3755	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	1.3755	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	1.3814	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.1687	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	1.3814	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	1.3814	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	1.3831	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	1.4045	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	1.4417	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	1.5002	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	1.5213	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	1.5332	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	1.7019	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-39)	1.7155	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.1794	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.1794	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	1.1794	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	1.1804	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	1.1804	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	1.1804	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	1.0722	1.2320
Europe	Netherlands (europe-west4)	n/a	1.2942
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	1.0722	n/a
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	n/a	1.5194
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	1.0722	n/a

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