On-demand, Linux
$0.417616/ hr
$304.86/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.167048/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.047152/ hr
Lowest in Tel Aviv (me-west1)
Per unit
$0.052202/ vCPU-hr
$0.013051 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
8vCPUs
4 cores • x86-64
Memory
32GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 4

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c2-standard-8 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c2-standard-8
c2-standard-8This page · Google Cloud, us-east48 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.470288/hr—
m5.2xlargesame 8 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both8 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.3840/hr18% less
m6i.2xlargesame 8 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both8 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.3840/hr18% less
m4.2xlargesame 8 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both8 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.4000/hr15% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

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.

PartSKUGoogle's rateQuantityPer hour
vCPUCompute optimized Core running in Americas
0F79-08F1-0D8A
$0.033982 per hour8 vCPU$0.271856
MemoryCompute optimized Ram running in Americas
E7E5-0449-5933
$0.004555 per GiB-hour32 GiB$0.14576
On-demand, Linux$0.417616

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 8 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.3680/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

Lowest$0.417616 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$0.668186 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions28With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-east1
Taiwan
$0.483544$0.851544
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$0.58432$0.95232
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$0.535712$0.903712
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$0.535712$0.903712
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$0.535712$0.903712
asia-south1
Mumbai
$0.501584$0.869584
asia-south2
Delhi
$0.501584$0.869584
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$0.515168$0.883168
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$0.592544$0.960544
europe-north1
Finland
$0.459776$0.827776
europe-west1
Belgium
$0.4594$0.8274
europe-west2
London
$0.538024$0.906024
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$0.538024$0.906024
europe-west4
Netherlands
$0.459744$0.827744
europe-west6
Zurich
$0.547088$0.915088
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$0.668186$1.036186
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$0.459378$0.827378
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$0.459744$0.827744
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$0.66288$1.03088
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$0.597191$0.965191
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$0.417616$0.785616
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$0.417616$0.785616
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$0.470288$0.838288
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$0.417616$0.785616
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$0.417616$0.785616
us-west2
Los Angeles
$0.501616$0.869616
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$0.501616$0.869616
us-west4
Las Vegas
$0.470288$0.838288

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Windows prices include the Windows Server licence.

What the prices include

  • Regions. c2-standard-8 is priced in the 28 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 C2 vCPU and memory 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. C2 earns a sustained-use discount of up to 20% off the On-demand rate when a VM runs the whole month. It starts once the VM runs more than a quarter of the month, arrives as a monthly credit, doesn't apply to usage a commitment covers, and only self-serve billing accounts get it. The prices here don't include it.

Other C2 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
c2-standard-4416$0.208808/hr
c2-standard-8832$0.417616/hr
c2-standard-161664$0.835232/hr
c2-standard-3030120$1.56606/hr
c2-standard-6060240$3.13212/hr