Google Cloud Compute Engine
a2-ultragpu-8g
A Google Cloud Compute Engine machine type in the A2 machine series.
On AWS
a2-ultragpu-8g is an accelerated machine. Those are compared by the accelerator, not by vCPU and memory, so this page doesn't pick a match. Browse AWS machines.
How this price is built
Google bills a VM by its parts, each with its own SKU. These are the parts of the On-demand Linux rate in Iowa (us-central1). The total is the published price; the parts add up to it.
| Part | SKU | Google's rate | Quantity | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCPU | A2 Instance Core running in Americas 2922-40C5-B19F | $0.031611 per hour | 96 vCPU | $3.034656 |
| Memory | A2 Instance Ram running in Americas 2390-DCAF-DA38 | $0.004237 per GiB-hour | 1,360 GiB | $5.76232 |
| GPU | Nvidia Tesla A100 80GB GPU running in Americas EDA0-3A70-3138 | $3.92808 per hour | 8 GPU | $31.42464 |
| Local SSD | SSD backed Local Storage 62AF-A39E-269B | $0.08 per GiB-month | 3,000 GiB | $0.328767 |
| On-demand, Linux | $40.550383 | |||
Google prices Local SSD per GiB-month; the hourly figure divides it by 730 hours.
Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 96 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.4160/hr, the same in every region and on every basis.
Rates by region
On-demand: Pay-as-you-go rate, composed from Google's per-vCPU and per-GiB SKUs
| Region | Linux (On-demand) | vs On-demand | Windows (On-demand) | vs On-demand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
asia-southeast1 HighestSingapore | $49.981484 | $54.397484 | ||
europe-west4 Netherlands | $44.647348 | $49.063348 | ||
us-central1 LowestIowa | $40.550383 | $44.966383 | ||
us-east4 Northern Virginia | $45.66186 | $50.07786 | ||
us-east5 Columbus | $44.519319 | $48.935319 |
No regions match the filter.
Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Windows prices include the Windows Server licence.
What the prices include
- Regions. a2-ultragpu-8g is priced in the 5 regions where Compute Engine runs it in at least one zone. It may run in only some of a region's zones.
- Windows. The Windows Server licence costs $0.046 per visible vCPU per hour. Spot and commitments don't discount it, so it's added at the full rate on every basis.
- Spot. Google can stop a Spot VM at any time and changes Spot prices up to once every 30 days.
- Commitments. The 1-yr and 3-yr rates are resource-based committed use discounts: you commit to an amount of A2 vCPU, memory, GPUs and Local SSD in one region and pay for it whether you use it or not. Flexible (spend-based) commitments discount less and aren't shown.
- Sustained use. A2 gets no sustained-use discount.
Other A2 machine types
| Machine type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Lowest On-demand, Linux |
|---|---|---|---|
| a2-highgpu-1g | 12 | 85 | $3.673385/hr |
| a2-ultragpu-1g | 12 | 170 | $5.068798/hr |
| a2-highgpu-2g | 24 | 170 | $7.34677/hr |
| a2-ultragpu-2g | 24 | 340 | $10.137596/hr |
| a2-highgpu-4g | 48 | 340 | $14.69354/hr |
| a2-ultragpu-4g | 48 | 680 | $20.275192/hr |
| a2-highgpu-8g | 96 | 680 | $29.38708/hr |
| a2-megagpu-16g | 96 | 1,360 | $55.739504/hr |
| a2-ultragpu-8g | 96 | 1,360 | $40.550383/hr |