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 0.0438 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
API Reference Object
-
Description
4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 local SSD
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-18T15:07:54.656721

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0668 USD/h 0.2974 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1474 USD/h 0.2974 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1474 USD/h 0.2974 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1474 USD/h 0.2974 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1772 USD/h 0.2974 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1131 USD/h 0.3093 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0438 USD/h 0.3123 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.1606 USD/h 0.3123 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0842 USD/h 0.3242 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0845 USD/h 0.3275 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.133 USD/h 0.3275 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1367 USD/h 0.3275 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1554 USD/h 0.3275 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1583 USD/h 0.3275 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1702 USD/h 0.335 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1665 USD/h 0.339 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1136 USD/h 0.3444 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1242 USD/h 0.3509 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1299 USD/h 0.3509 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1564 USD/h 0.3509 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1431 USD/h 0.3575 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0936 USD/h 0.3599 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1444 USD/h 0.3613 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2201 USD/h 0.3669 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0781 USD/h 0.3718 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1805 USD/h 0.3819 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0812 USD/h 0.3865 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1662 USD/h 0.3896 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1598 USD/h 0.3999 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1775 USD/h 0.4253 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1887 USD/h 0.4722 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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 arm64 server combining dedicated Neoverse-V2 cores, high memory density, and local NVMe storage for database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform c4a-highmem-4-lssd is an arm64-based server instance powered by a 3.0 GHz ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 processor with 4 dedicated physical cores and no hyperthreading. It features a memory-optimized configuration of 32.0 GB RAM (8.0 GB per core) and includes a bundled 402 GB local NVMe SSD. Benchmarks show strong memory performance, with a PassMark memory score in the top 25% and cached read bandwidth of 494.32 GB/sec, alongside strong single-threaded gzip compression. However, cryptographic and LLM inference capabilities are weak. This instance provides a cost-efficient, resource-dense profile for memory-intensive and local storage-dependent workloads. It is highly suitable for database operations, Redis caching, static web serving, and software compilation, while being less optimal for compute-heavy encryption tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.52Score
    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 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.38 50.00% 50.00% -38.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,679,255 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.39 20.00% 20.00% -17.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,910 2,417 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 133,947 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,072 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
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    c4a-highmem-1 18 GiB0
    c4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
    c4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
    c4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
    c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0

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