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Instance Typee2-standard-8g2-standard-8
DetailsCost 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
8 – Number of CPUs
Accelerator Optimized for Graphics-intensive workloads, Video streaming and transcoding, remote virtual workstations, digital twins Inference.

g – Graphics-intensive workloads
2 – Generation
standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – Number of CPUs
Instance FamilyCost optimizedAccelerator optimized
DescriptionEfficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAMGraphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC MilanIntel Cascade Lake
Coremark Score103957111997
Shared CPUnono
GPUnoyes
GPUs1
GPU Namenvidia-l4
GPU Total RAM (GiB)24
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancynoyes
Nested Virtualizationnoyes
Custom Shapesyesyes
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeSCSINVMe
Local SSDnoyes
Max Local SSD3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenono
Hyperdisk Throughputnoyes
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.07x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
On Demand
Geography
Region
e2-standard-8
g2-standard-8
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.26800.8886
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.29511.0531
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.30191.0962
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.30191.0962
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.31041.1681
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.31091.3658
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.3109n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.3163n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.3163n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.3219n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.3219n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.28140.8972
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.3220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.3220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.3233n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.3243n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.3257n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.3307n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.3439n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.3439n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.3439n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.3453n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.29220.9399
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.3453n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.3454n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.3458n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.3511n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-34)0.3604n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-35)0.3750n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-36)0.3803n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-37)0.3833n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-38)0.4255n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-39)0.4289n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.29490.9399
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.29490.9399
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.29490.9614
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.29510.9719
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.29510.9884
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.29511.0060
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)0.2680n/a
North AmericaOhio (us-east5)0.2680n/a
North AmericaOregon (us-west1)n/a0.8536
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.26800.8536
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)n/a0.8508
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