Google Cloud Compute Engine
z4m-highmem-16
A Google Cloud Compute Engine machine type in the Z4M machine series.
On AWS
The nearest AWS machines to z4m-highmem-16 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).
| Machine | Size | On-demand Linux | vs z4m-highmem-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| z4m-highmem-16This page · Google Cloud, us-east4 | 16 vCPU · 122 GiB | $1.095165/hr | — |
| i3.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 122 GiB; Intel on both | 16 vCPU · 122 GiB | $1.2480/hr | 14% more |
| r4.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 122 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on z4m-highmem-16 only | 16 vCPU · 122 GiB | $1.0640/hr | 2.8% 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.
| Part | SKU | Google's rate | Quantity | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCPU | Z4M Instance Core running in Iowa F649-D74E-44C7 | $0.03465 per hour | 16 vCPU | $0.5544 |
| Memory | Z4M Instance Ram running in Iowa A4A1-7772-3536 | $0.003938 per GiB-hour | 122 GiB | $0.480436 |
| Local SSD | Z4M Instance Local SSD running in Iowa A292-0BED-E525 | $0.11744 per GiB-month | 375 GiB | $0.060329 |
| On-demand, Linux | $1.095165 | |||
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
| Region | Linux (On-demand) | vs On-demand | Windows (On-demand) | vs On-demand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
europe-north1 HighestFinland | $1.205882 | $1.941882 | ||
us-central1 LowestIowa | $1.095165 | $1.831165 | ||
us-east4 LowestNorthern Virginia | $1.095165 | $1.831165 |
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. z4m-highmem-16 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.
- 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 Z4M 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. Z4M gets no sustained-use discount.
Other Z4M machine types
| Machine type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Lowest On-demand, Linux |
|---|---|---|---|
| z4m-highmem-16 | 16 | 122 | $1.095165/hr |
| z4m-highmem-32 | 32 | 244 | $2.19033/hr |
| z4m-highmem-48 | 48 | 366 | $3.285494/hr |
| z4m-highmem-192 | 192 | 1,488 | $13.236489/hr |
| z4m-highmem-192-metal | 192 | 1,536 | $13.425513/hr |