Google Cloud Compute Engine

z3-highmem-16-highlssd

A Google Cloud Compute Engine machine type in the Z3 machine series.

On-demand, Linux
$1.72852/ hr
$1,261.82/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.777836/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.183677/ hr
Lowest in Mumbai (asia-south1)
Per unit
$0.108033/ vCPU-hr
$0.013504 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
16vCPUs
8 cores • x86-64
Memory
128GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 8
Local SSD: 750 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to z3-highmem-16-highlssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs z3-highmem-16-highlssd
z3-highmem-16-highlssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east416 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.72852/hr—
r5d.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 128 GiB; Intel on both16 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.1520/hr33% less
r6id.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 128 GiB; Intel on both16 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.2096/hr30% less
r8id.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 128 GiB; Intel on both16 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.33056/hr23% 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
vCPUZ3 Instance Core running in Americas
40C4-CA9F-3B87		$0.049653 per hour16 vCPU$0.79445
MemoryZ3 Instance Ram running in Americas
2DFF-4FD5-CD13		$0.006655 per GiB-hour128 GiB$0.851878
Local SSDZ3 Instance Local SSD running in Americas
6D7C-6AE1-9963		$0.08 per GiB-month750 GiB$0.082192
On-demand, Linux$1.72852

Google prices Local SSD per GiB-month; the hourly figure divides it by 730 hours.

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 16 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.7360/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$1.72852 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$2.264681 / hrZurich (europe-west6)
Regions18With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$2.21942$2.95542
asia-south1
Mumbai
$1.797661$2.533661
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$2.132171$2.868171
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$2.16065$2.89665
europe-north2
Stockholm
$1.814946$2.550946
europe-west1
Belgium
$2.264361$3.000361
europe-west10
Berlin
$2.253676$2.989676
europe-west2
London
$1.970512$2.706512
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$2.039653$2.775653
europe-west4
Netherlands
$1.814946$2.550946
europe-west6
Zurich
Highest
$2.264681$3.000681
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$1.884087$2.620087
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$1.72852$2.46452
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$1.72852$2.46452
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$1.72852$2.46452
us-east5
Columbus
$1.947136$2.683136
us-south1
Dallas
$2.039653$2.775653
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$1.72852$2.46452

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. z3-highmem-16-highlssd is priced in the 18 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 Z3 vCPU, memory 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. Z3 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other Z3 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
z3-highmem-8-highlssd864$0.86426/hr
z3-highmem-14-standardlssd14112$1.481633/hr
z3-highmem-16-highlssd16128$1.72852/hr
z3-highmem-22-highlssd22176$2.386989/hr
z3-highmem-22-standardlssd22176$2.345893/hr
z3-highmem-32-highlssd32256$3.45704/hr
z3-highmem-44-highlssd44352$4.773977/hr
z3-highmem-44-standardlssd44352$4.65069/hr
z3-highmem-8888704$9.547955/hr
z3-highmem-88-highlssd88704$9.547955/hr
z3-highmem-88-standardlssd88704$9.301379/hr
z3-highmem-1761761,408$18.602759/hr
z3-highmem-176-standardlssd1761,408$18.602759/hr
z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal1921,536$20.249087/hr