On-demand, Linux
$2.263296/ hr
$1,652.21/mo · lowest in Mumbai (asia-south1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.01808/ hr
Lowest in Mumbai (asia-south1)
Spot, Linux
$0.370944/ hr
Lowest in Salt Lake City (us-west3)
Per unit
$0.040416/ vCPU-hr
$0.005052 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
56vCPUs
28 cores • x86-64
Memory
448GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: AMD
Physical cores: 28

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c2d-highmem-56 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c2d-highmem-56
c2d-highmem-56This page · Google Cloud, us-east456 vCPU · 448 GiB$3.86176/hr—
r5a.16xlarge64 vCPU and 512 GiB for 56 vCPU and 448 GiB, the nearest size up; AMD on both; 28 physical cores vs 3264 vCPU · 512 GiB$3.6160/hr6.4% less
r6a.16xlarge64 vCPU and 512 GiB for 56 vCPU and 448 GiB, the nearest size up; AMD on both; 28 physical cores vs 3264 vCPU · 512 GiB$3.6288/hr6.0% less
r7a.16xlarge64 vCPU and 512 GiB for 56 vCPU and 448 GiB, the nearest size up; AMD on both; 28 physical cores vs 6464 vCPU · 512 GiB$4.8688/hr26% more

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 Mumbai (asia-south1). The total is the published price; the parts add up to it.

PartSKUGoogle's rateQuantityPer hour
vCPUC2D AMD Instance Core running in Mumbai
406A-AA4B-1013
$0.019512 per hour56 vCPU$1.092672
MemoryC2D AMD Instance Ram running in Mumbai
BD36-0399-11EF
$0.002613 per GiB-hour448 GiB$1.170624
On-demand, Linux$2.263296

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 56 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $2.5760/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$2.263296 / hrMumbai (asia-south1)
Highest$5.486656 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions31With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$3.775688$6.351688
asia-east1
Taiwan
$3.970568$6.546568
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$4.796904$7.372904
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$4.403616$6.979616
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$4.403616$6.979616
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$4.403616$6.979616
asia-south1
Mumbai
Lowest
$2.263296$4.839296
asia-south2
Delhi
$4.118688$6.694688
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$4.230408$6.806408
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$4.867296$7.443296
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$4.867296$7.443296
europe-central2
Warsaw
$4.153632$6.729632
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$4.046409$6.622409
europe-west1
Belgium
$3.775688$6.351688
europe-west12
Turin
$4.423616$6.999616
europe-west2
London
$4.417728$6.993728
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$4.417728$6.993728
europe-west4
Netherlands
$3.775688$6.351688
europe-west8
Milan
$3.977826$6.553826
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$5.486656$8.062656
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$3.772076$6.348076
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$3.775688$6.351688
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$3.775688$6.351688
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$5.44488$8.02088
us-central1
Iowa
$3.42916$6.00516
us-east1
South Carolina
$3.42916$6.00516
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$3.86176$6.43776
us-west1
Oregon
$3.42916$6.00516
us-west2
Los Angeles
$4.122104$6.698104
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$4.122104$6.698104
us-west4
Las Vegas
$3.86176$6.43776

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c2d-highmem-56 is priced in the 31 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 C2D 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. C2D gets no sustained-use discount.

Other C2D machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
c2d-highcpu-224$0.049476/hr
c2d-standard-228$0.059928/hr
c2d-highmem-2216$0.080832/hr
c2d-highcpu-448$0.098952/hr
c2d-standard-4416$0.119856/hr
c2d-highmem-4432$0.161664/hr
c2d-highcpu-8816$0.197904/hr
c2d-standard-8832$0.239712/hr
c2d-highmem-8864$0.323328/hr
c2d-highcpu-161632$0.395808/hr
c2d-standard-161664$0.479424/hr
c2d-highmem-1616128$0.646656/hr
c2d-highcpu-323264$0.791616/hr
c2d-standard-3232128$0.958848/hr
c2d-highmem-3232256$1.293312/hr
c2d-highcpu-5656112$1.385328/hr
c2d-standard-5656224$1.677984/hr
c2d-highmem-5656448$2.263296/hr
c2d-highcpu-112112224$2.770656/hr
c2d-standard-112112448$3.355968/hr
c2d-highmem-112112896$4.526592/hr