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Instance Type	z4m-highmem-192-metal	h4d-highmem-192-lssd
Details	Highest block storage to compute ratios for storage-intensive workloads. File servers, Flash-optimized databases, Scale-out analytics. z – Storage optimized 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 192 – Number of CPUs metal – Bare metal instance	HPC workloads, Computational fluid dynamics, crash safety, genomics, and financial modeling, General scientific and engineering computing. h – Compute optimized for HPC 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 192 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD
Instance Family	Storage optimized	Compute optimized
Description	Storage Optimized Bare Metal: 192 vCPUs, 1536 GB RAM, 12 Local SSDs	192 vCPUs, 1488 GB RAM, 10 local SSDs
vCPUs	192	192
Memory	1536 GiB	1488 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	AMD EPYC Turin
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	168000 GB	3750 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IRDMA, IDPF	gVNIC, IRDMA
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.49x

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Geography	Region	z4m-highmem-192-metal	h4d-highmem-192-lssd
Europe	Finland (europe-north1)	13.9856	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	20.1175
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	21.6645
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	29.6310
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	12.7016	15.4751
Europe	Netherlands (europe-west4)	n/a	16.5590
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	15.4751

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