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e2-micro by Google Cloud Platform

e2-micro is a Efficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/8 shared physical core) and 1 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 1 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.006 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
1 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
171
(All-cores)
133
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
334002
Name
e2-micro
Description
Efficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/8 shared physical core) and 1 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-07T22:59:21.356267

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0178 USD/h 0.0465 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0279 USD/h 0.0465 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0279 USD/h 0.0465 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0279 USD/h 0.0465 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0114 USD/h 0.0489 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0174 USD/h 0.0507 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0093 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0145 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0167 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.024 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0257 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.026 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.013 USD/h 0.0513 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.006 USD/h 0.0524 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0302 USD/h 0.0524 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0268 USD/h 0.0539 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0257 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.028 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0186 USD/h 0.0549 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0301 USD/h 0.0549 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0155 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0181 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0252 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0335 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0267 USD/h 0.0561 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.017 USD/h 0.0563 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0202 USD/h 0.0566 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0315 USD/h 0.0574 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0149 USD/h 0.0598 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0225 USD/h 0.0598 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0359 USD/h 0.0598 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0092 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0166 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.02 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0321 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0228 USD/h 0.061 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0125 USD/h 0.0626 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0128 USD/h 0.0651 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0323 USD/h 0.066 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0254 USD/h 0.0666 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0142 USD/h 0.0739 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0426 USD/h 0.0745 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
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
1 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

      An economical shared core virtual machine designed specifically for running lightweight intermittent workloads and low intensity utility tasks.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-micro is an entry-level, shared-core virtual machine designed for low-intensity utility workloads. Built on the x86_64 architecture with an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2 GHz, it provides 2 vCPUs mapped to one-eighth of a shared physical core, alongside 1.0 GB of system memory. The instance does not include local storage or GPU resources. Performance benchmarks, including stress-ng and PassMark CPU tests, consistently rank in the bottom 10%, reflecting its resource-constrained nature. Memory bandwidth is also limited, with large block uncached reads reaching 0.1 GB/sec. Qualitatively, the e2-micro is highly cost-efficient for running lightweight, intermittent tasks but presents clear performance tradeoffs under sustained utilization. It is best suited for basic web serving, microservices, and small development or testing environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.012Score
      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) 10,473 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.0055 50.00% 50.00% -92.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 112,566 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.0097 20.00% 20.00% -60.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 176.4 2,416 0.073 10.00% 10.00% -23.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 2,117 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.0196 10.00% 10.00% -32.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 161.6 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.0683 10.00% 10.00% -23.50%

      Memory Bandwidth

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 202
      Compression
      		 2519
      Encryption
      		 76
      Extended Instructions
      		 139
      Floating Point Maths
      		 355
      Integer Maths
      		 568
      Physics
      		 26
      Prime Numbers
      		 1
      Single Threaded
      		 162
      String Sorting
      		 277

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 176
      Database Operations
      		 57
      Memory Latency
      		 405
      Memory Read Cached
      		 2081
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 1104
      Memory Write
      		 1061

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      e2-small 22 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      e2-medium 24 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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