Google Compute Engine Instance Types

GCE

Instance types offered by Google Compute Engine.

General purpose

E2 Shared cores

Unlike predefined machine types and custom machine types, shared-core machine types are not billed on their individual resources. Each machine type has a defined price for both vCPUs and memory. E2 shared-core machines with committed use discount contracts consume cores in the following manner:
e2-micro: 0.25 cores
e2-small: 0.50 cores
e2-medium: 1.0 cores

Cost per vCPU: $6.11
RAM per vCPU: 1GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Mix
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing#general-purpose_machine_type_family
Tested plans: e2-medium, e2-small
E2 Standard

The E2 machine series has a predefined CPU platform, running either an Intel processor or the second generation AMD EPYC Rome processor. E2 offers 2 vCPUs for short periods of bursting.

Cost per vCPU: $24.45
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Mix
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types
N2 High memory

N2 machine series has 8 GB of memory per vCPU, up to 128 vCPUs, and is available on the Intel Ice Lake and Cascade Lake CPU platforms.

Cost per vCPU: $38.26
RAM per vCPU: 8GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines#n2-high-mem
N2 Standard

N2 machine series has up to 128 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory per vCPU, and is available on the Intel Ice Lake and Cascade Lake CPU platforms.

Cost per vCPU: $28.36
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types
N2D Standard

N2D machine series has up to 224 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory per vCPU, and is available on second generation AMD EPYC Rome and third generation AMD EPYC Milan platforms.

Cost per vCPU: $24.67
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types
Tested plans: n2d-standard-2

Compute optimized

C2 Standard

The C2 series enables the highest performance per core and the highest frequency for compute-bound workloads using Intel 3.9 GHz Cascade Lake processors.

Cost per vCPU: $30.48
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/compute-optimized-machines
C2D Standard

The C2D machine series provides the largest VM sizes and are best-suited for high-performance computing (HPC). They use the third generation AMD EPYC Milan platform

Cost per vCPU: $33.14
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/compute-optimized-machines
Tested plans: c2d-standard-2
C3 High CPU

The C3 high CPU instances are powered by the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor Sapphire Rapids CPU platform and feature 2GB RAM per vCPU.

Cost per vCPU: $31.50
RAM per vCPU: 2GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-c3-machines-with-googles-custom-intel-ipu
Tested plans: c3-highcpu-4

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