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e2-medium by Google Cloud Platform

e2-medium is a Efficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/2 shared physical core) and 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0071 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2643
(All-cores)
2642
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
334004
Name
e2-medium
Description
Efficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/2 shared physical core) and 4 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-06T08:55:46.249283

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0211 USD/h 0.0553 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0332 USD/h 0.0553 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0332 USD/h 0.0553 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0332 USD/h 0.0553 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0135 USD/h 0.0581 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0207 USD/h 0.0603 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0286 USD/h 0.0608 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0111 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0154 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0172 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0198 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0306 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0309 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0071 USD/h 0.0623 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0359 USD/h 0.0623 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0318 USD/h 0.0641 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0306 USD/h 0.0642 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0333 USD/h 0.0642 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0221 USD/h 0.0653 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0358 USD/h 0.0653 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0184 USD/h 0.0664 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0215 USD/h 0.0664 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0299 USD/h 0.0664 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0399 USD/h 0.0664 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0317 USD/h 0.0667 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0202 USD/h 0.0669 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.024 USD/h 0.0672 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0374 USD/h 0.0682 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0177 USD/h 0.071 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0267 USD/h 0.071 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0426 USD/h 0.071 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0109 USD/h 0.0713 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0237 USD/h 0.0713 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0381 USD/h 0.0713 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0198 USD/h 0.0714 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0271 USD/h 0.0725 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0149 USD/h 0.0744 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0152 USD/h 0.0774 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0384 USD/h 0.0785 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0301 USD/h 0.0791 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0169 USD/h 0.0878 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0506 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Shared
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
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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, shared-core virtual instance offering basic compute and memory resources for lightweight applications and development environments.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-medium is a budget-friendly, shared-core virtual machine designed for lightweight workloads. It features an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.2 GHz with 2 vCPUs sharing a single physical core, alongside 4.0 GB of system memory. The instance does not include local storage or dedicated GPUs. Performance benchmarks show a strong single-core CPU capability, ranking in the top 25% in stress-ng tests, but multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are highly constrained, falling into the bottom 10% to 25% across most metrics. This resource profile results in low database and web serving throughput, with Redis SET operations limited to 0.82 million operations per second. Consequently, the e2-medium is best suited for low-traffic web servers, development environments, and small microservices where cost efficiency is prioritized over sustained high performance.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.097Score
      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) 124,504 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.0652 50.00% 50.00% -74.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 662,531 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.0571 20.00% 20.00% -43.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 817.1 2,416 0.338 10.00% 10.00% -10.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 6,247 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.0579 10.00% 10.00% -24.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,305 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.975 10.00% 10.00% -0.25%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 661

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 682

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3106
      Compression
      		 32270
      Encryption
      		 2131
      Extended Instructions
      		 1741
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4553
      Integer Maths
      		 8220
      Physics
      		 387
      Prime Numbers
      		 19
      Single Threaded
      		 2305
      String Sorting
      		 4502

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 817
      Database Operations
      		 884
      Memory Latency
      		 100
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23810
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12508
      Memory Write
      		 8182

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      e2-micro 21 GiB0
      e2-small 22 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      e2-standard-2 28 GiB0
      e2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      e2-standard-4 416 GiB0

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