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Instance Type	n4a-highmem-32	m4n-megamem-28
Details	High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. n – General purpose 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs	High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. m – Memory optimized 4 – Generation megamem – 14x RAM/CPU ratio 28 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	Network optimized and memory optimized
Description	32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM	28 vCPUs, 372 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	28
Memory	256 GiB	372 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Emerald Rapids
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory	yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	no
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	no	no
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	2.68x

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Geography	Region	n4a-highmem-32	m4n-megamem-28
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.6173	3.9813
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	4.6981
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	4.6981
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	4.8172
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	4.9116
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	4.9768
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	5.1361
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	5.6932
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	6.3219
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	6.3702
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	1.6979	4.1405
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.7798	4.1405
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.8432	4.1803
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.9078	4.3839
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	1.9942	4.3839
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	4.3839
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	4.4842
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	4.5388
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	1.6173	n/a
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	3.9813
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	1.6173	3.9813
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	1.6173	3.9813

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