c4a-highmem-48 by Google Cloud Platform

A memory-optimized x86_64 virtual server featuring forty-eight dedicated cores and a dense three-hundred-and-eighty-four gigabyte memory configuration.

Google Cloud Platform c4a-highmem-48 is an x86_64 architecture server instance in the c4a family, configured with 48 dedicated vCPUs and 384.0 GB of RAM. This configuration establishes a memory-to-core ratio of 8.0 GB per vCPU, classifying it as a memory-optimized resource. The instance does not feature local storage or integrated GPUs, requiring reliance on network-attached storage for persistent data. This hardware profile offers qualitative cost efficiency for memory-bound workloads by providing a dense memory array without requiring the acquisition of excess compute cores. It is designed for workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, enterprise applications, and memory-intensive data processing tasks that do not require hardware acceleration or local physical disks.