e2-highmem-2 by Google Cloud Platform

e2-highmem-2 is a Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0128 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,452
(All-cores)
1,102
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
336002
Name
e2-highmem-2
Description
Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T01:36:50.039548

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0378 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0542 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0542 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0542 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0232 USD/h 0.0949 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0338 USD/h 0.0985 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0339 USD/h 0.0994 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0488 USD/h 0.0994 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0567 USD/h 0.0994 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0198 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0263 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0294 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0472 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0128 USD/h 0.1018 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0554 USD/h 0.1018 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0491 USD/h 0.1047 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0522 USD/h 0.1049 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0568 USD/h 0.1049 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0377 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0608 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0298 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0332 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0511 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0651 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0541 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0418 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0451 USD/h 0.1098 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0669 USD/h 0.1115 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0386 USD/h 0.1159 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0556 USD/h 0.1159 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0695 USD/h 0.1159 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0214 USD/h 0.1165 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0491 USD/h 0.1165 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0662 USD/h 0.1165 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0335 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0507 USD/h 0.1184 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0266 USD/h 0.1215 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.026 USD/h 0.1265 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0656 USD/h 0.1283 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0466 USD/h 0.1293 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0287 USD/h 0.1435 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0868 USD/h 0.1446 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly, memory-optimized virtual server designed for lightweight caching, small databases, and low-compute background tasks.

      Memory OptimizedBurstable & Budget

      Google Cloud Platform e2-highmem-2 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the E2 instance family, configured with 2 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2 GHz, this instance allocates 8.0 GB of memory per core but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks position this server in the lower tier, with weak single-core and poor multi-core CPU results, alongside restricted memory bandwidth. Qualitatively, the e2-highmem-2 provides a cost-effective option for memory-sensitive workloads that require minimal processing power. It is best suited for lightweight database hosting, Redis caching, static web serving, and simple background data processing tasks where memory capacity is prioritized over raw computational speed.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.113Score
      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) 123,494 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0644 50.00% 50.00% -74.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 787,673 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0674 20.00% 20.00% -41.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,468 2,418 0.607 10.00% 10.00% -4.87%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 12,464 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.115 10.00% 10.00% -19.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,265 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.958 10.00% 10.00% -0.43%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 841

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,028

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3028
      Compression
      		 31790
      Encryption
      		 2115
      Extended Instructions
      		 1720
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4538
      Integer Maths
      		 8152
      Physics
      		 306
      Prime Numbers
      		 16
      Single Threaded
      		 2265
      String Sorting
      		 4354

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1468
      Database Operations
      		 605
      Memory Latency
      		 101
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23211
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 13096
      Memory Write
      		 13644

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      e2-small 22 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      e2-medium 24 GiB0
      e2-standard-2 28 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      e2-standard-4 416 GiB0

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