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Instance Type	n4-highmem-8	z4d-highmem-8-highlssd
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 8 – Number of CPUs	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 8 – Number of CPUs highlssd – High Local SSD
Instance Family	General-purpose	Storage optimized
Description	8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM	Storage Optimized VM: 8 vCPUs, 63 GB RAM, 1 Local SSDs
vCPUs	8	8
Memory	64 GiB	63 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	AMD EPYC Turin
Coremark Score	177336
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory	yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	no
Nested Virtualization	yes	no
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	16
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	no	yes
Max Local SSD		84000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.72x

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Geography	Region	n4-highmem-8	z4d-highmem-8-highlssd
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.4761	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	0.5242	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	0.5242	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	0.5242	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	0.5242	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	0.5242	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	0.5362	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	0.5427	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	0.5513	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	0.5523	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	0.5523	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	0.4761	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	0.5618	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	0.5618	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	0.5618	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	0.5723	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	0.5723	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	0.5761	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	0.5784	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	0.5873	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	0.5951	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	0.6114	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	0.4951	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	0.6114	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	0.6114	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	0.6189	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	0.6237	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	0.6402	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	0.6660	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	0.6808	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	0.7560	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	0.7617	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	0.4951	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	0.4999	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	0.4999	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	0.4999	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	0.5189	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	0.5237	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.4761	0.9638
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	0.9638
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	0.4761	n/a
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	0.4761	0.9638

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