On-demand, Linux
$1.2320/ hr
$899.36/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
Not offered
Spot, Linux
$0.51424/ hr
Lowest in Singapore (asia-southeast1)
Per unit
$0.0385/ vCPU-hr
$0.009625 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
32vCPUs
32 cores • Arm64
Memory
128GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: Arm64
CPU: Arm
Physical cores: 32

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to t2a-standard-32 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Singapore (asia-southeast1 ↔ ap-southeast-1). t2a-standard-32 isn't sold in us-east4, so this compares the paired region where its rate is lowest.

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs t2a-standard-32
t2a-standard-32This page · Google Cloud, asia-southeast132 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.51936/hr—
m6g.8xlargesame 32 vCPU and 128 GiB; Arm on both32 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.5360/hr1.1% more
m7g.8xlargesame 32 vCPU and 128 GiB; Arm on both32 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.6320/hr7.4% more
m8g.8xlargesame 32 vCPU and 128 GiB; Arm on both32 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.7952/hr18% 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 Iowa (us-central1). The total is the published price; the parts add up to it.

PartSKUGoogle's rateQuantityPer hour
vCPUT2A Arm Instance Core running in Americas
7F42-2C35-6872
$0.0249 per hour32 vCPU$0.7968
MemoryT2A Arm Instance Ram running in Americas
C5C1-548B-71FE
$0.0034 per GiB-hour128 GiB$0.4352
On-demand, Linux$1.2320

Rates by region

On-demand: Pay-as-you-go rate, composed from Google's per-vCPU and per-GiB SKUs

Lowest$1.2320 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$1.51936 / hrSingapore (asia-southeast1)
Regions3With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)
asia-southeast1
Singapore
Highest
$1.51936
europe-west4
Netherlands
$1.294211
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$1.2320

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Google doesn't offer Windows on Arm, so t2a-standard-32 has Linux prices only.

What the prices include

  • Regions. t2a-standard-32 is priced in the 3 regions where Compute Engine runs it in at least one zone. It may run in only some of a region's zones.
  • Spot. Google can stop a Spot VM at any time and changes Spot prices up to once every 30 days.
  • Sustained use. T2A gets no sustained-use discount.

Other T2A machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
t2a-standard-114$0.0385/hr
t2a-standard-228$0.0770/hr
t2a-standard-4416$0.1540/hr
t2a-standard-8832$0.3080/hr
t2a-standard-161664$0.6160/hr
t2a-standard-3232128$1.2320/hr
t2a-standard-4848192$1.8480/hr