Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-2 | n1-highmem-2 |
| 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 2 – 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. n – General purpose 1 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 13 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 8 GiB | 13 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Ampere Altra | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge |
| 47054 | 26293 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 0.8 | 0.8 |
| 0.6 | 0.6 |
| 0.4 | 0.4 |
| yes | |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| no | yes |
| 9000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.70x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-2 | n1-highmem-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.1301 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.1421 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.1421 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.1421 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.1421 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.1432 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.1459 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.1517 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.1517 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.1517 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.1524 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.1301 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.1524 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.1550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.1591 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.1655 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 0.1679 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 0.1679 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 0.1878 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.1302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.1302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.1302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.1302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.1332 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.1332 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1370 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0770 | 0.1183 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.0809 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 0.1183 |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.0950 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.1183 |