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Instance Type	z4m-highmem-32	z3-highmem-32-highlssd
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 32 – Number of CPUs	Highest block storage to compute ratios for storage-intensive workloads. File servers, Flash-optimized databases, Scale-out analytics. z – Storage optimized 3 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs highlssd – High Local SSD
Instance Family	Storage optimized	Storage optimized
Description	Storage Optimized VM: 32 vCPUs, 244 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs	32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, 4 Local SSDs
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	244 GiB	256 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	Intel Sapphire Rapids
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	no	no
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
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	36000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IRDMA, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.73x

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Geography	Region	z4m-highmem-32	z3-highmem-32-highlssd
Europe	Finland (europe-north1)	2.2789	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	3.2927
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	4.0621
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	4.1158
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	4.2284
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	4.3134
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	4.3134
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	4.3136
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	3.4244
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	3.4573
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	n/a	3.4573
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	n/a	3.5890
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	n/a	3.7085
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	3.7536
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	3.8853
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	3.8853
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.0697	3.2927
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	3.2927
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	3.2927

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