c4a-highmem-4-lssd by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-highmem-4-lssd is a 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 402 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0302 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
402 GB Storage
Spare SCore
7,256
(All-cores)
1,819
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765227
Name
c4a-highmem-4-lssd
Description
4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 local SSD
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-03T09:00:32.050163

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0721 USD/h 0.2358 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1301 USD/h 0.2358 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1301 USD/h 0.2358 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1301 USD/h 0.2358 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1344 USD/h 0.2358 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0903 USD/h 0.2452 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0302 USD/h 0.2476 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.1346 USD/h 0.2476 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0585 USD/h 0.257 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0643 USD/h 0.2596 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0985 USD/h 0.2596 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.112 USD/h 0.2596 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1141 USD/h 0.2596 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1285 USD/h 0.2655 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1269 USD/h 0.2688 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0901 USD/h 0.273 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.099 USD/h 0.2782 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0992 USD/h 0.2782 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1249 USD/h 0.2782 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1034 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0742 USD/h 0.2853 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1144 USD/h 0.2865 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1585 USD/h 0.2909 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0619 USD/h 0.2947 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1506 USD/h 0.3028 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0644 USD/h 0.3064 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1317 USD/h 0.3088 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1266 USD/h 0.317 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1279 USD/h 0.3371 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1495 USD/h 0.3744 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
80 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
80 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    402 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ARM-powered server featuring high memory density and local NVMe SSD storage for efficient database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Google Cloud Platform c4a-highmem-4-lssd is an ARM-based server featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs on the ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 architecture running at 3.0 GHz. It is configured with 32.0 GB of RAM, yielding a high 8.0 GB per core ratio, and includes a 402 GB local NVMe SSD. Performance benchmarks show strong memory bandwidth and single-threaded compression capabilities, alongside average multi-core compute and database performance. However, cryptographic and LLM inference capabilities are relatively weak. This server provides a cost-effective, high-density memory profile suitable for memory-bound applications, Redis caching, database operations, and static web serving where local high-speed storage is required.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.529Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 732,201 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.382 50.00% 50.00% -38.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,679,255 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.401 20.00% 20.00% -16.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,910 2,418 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.84%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 133,947 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.24 10.00% 10.00% +2.17%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,072 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.876 10.00% 10.00% -1.32%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,909

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,386

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4336
    Compression
    		 27489
    Encryption
    		 834
    Extended Instructions
    		 5187
    Floating Point Maths
    		 25730
    Integer Maths
    		 22285
    Physics
    		 1381
    Prime Numbers
    		 66
    Single Threaded
    		 2072
    String Sorting
    		 19838

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2910
    Database Operations
    		 6569
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22436
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 17852
    Memory Write
    		 22651

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

    PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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    c4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
    c4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
    c4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
    c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0

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