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 0.0069 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
2026-10-25T01:49:54.622676

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0247 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
0.0131 USD/h 0.0489 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0183 USD/h 0.0507 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0112 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0166 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0181 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0263 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0275 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0308 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0141 USD/h 0.0513 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0069 USD/h 0.0524 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0313 USD/h 0.0524 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0251 USD/h 0.0539 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0267 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.029 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0174 USD/h 0.0549 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0254 USD/h 0.0549 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0169 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0178 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0289 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0335 USD/h 0.0559 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0305 USD/h 0.0561 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0261 USD/h 0.0563 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0266 USD/h 0.0566 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0345 USD/h 0.0574 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0188 USD/h 0.0598 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0298 USD/h 0.0598 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0359 USD/h 0.0598 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0109 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.014 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0227 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.036 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0286 USD/h 0.061 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.015 USD/h 0.0626 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0187 USD/h 0.0651 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0351 USD/h 0.066 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0337 USD/h 0.0666 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0147 USD/h 0.0739 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0447 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
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
1 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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 entry-level shared vCPU instance with 1 GB memory designed for light background processes, basic utilities, and low-traffic workloads.

      Burstable & Budget

      Google Cloud Platform e2-micro is a budget-focused instance within the E2 series utilizing an x86_64 Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2 GHz. It provides 2 vCPUs backed by a shared physical core with 1/8 allocation, paired with 1.0 GB of system RAM (0.5 GB per vCPU). The processor includes 16 MB L3 cache and supports AVX, AES, and FMA instruction sets. The instance lacks local NVMe storage and dedicated GPU hardware. Benchmark performance consistently falls in the bottom 10 percent of cloud instances, recording a stress-ng multi-core score of 171.0, a PassMark CPU score of 201.56, and static web serving throughput of 0.17 GB/sec. Uncached large-block memory read bandwidth measures 0.1 GB/sec. Due to shared vCPU capacity, the e2-micro provides a cost-effective platform for low-utilization tasks, including lightweight microservices, internal administrative tools, small development environments, and automated background scripts.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.011Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.0053 50.00% 50.00% -93.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 112,566 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.0092 20.00% 20.00% -61.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 180 2,416 0.075 10.00% 10.00% -23.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 2,117 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.019 10.00% 10.00% -33.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 160 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.067 10.00% 10.00% -24.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 202
      Compression
      		 2,519
      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
      		 2,081
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 1,104
      Memory Write
      		 1,061

      Stress-ng Stressors

      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 0.8 0.8 1.00×
      bsearch
      		 29.99 36.78 1.23×
      fibsearch
      		 35.38 39.59 1.12×
      heapsort
      		 1 1.2 1.20×
      hsearch
      		 843.36 947.55 1.12×
      insertionsort
      		 1 1.2 1.20×
      malloc
      		 18,009 171,798 9.54×
      mcontend
      		 32.98 51.96 1.58×
      mergesort
      		 3.51 4.4 1.25×
      qsort
      		 2.2 2.68 1.22×
      skiplist
      		 704.58 1,069 1.52×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 335.66 363.86 1.08×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 82.6 120.38 1.46×
      zlib
      		 5.29 12.33 2.33×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 2,268 3,633 1.60×
      clone
      		 16.22 14.85 0.92×
      context
      		 422.6 683.79 1.62×
      cpu-sched
      		 61.03 87.88 1.44×
      eventfd
      		 3,340 8,997 2.69×
      fault
      		 855.16 1,363 1.59×
      fork
      		 339.79 655.99 1.93×
      getrandom
      		 5,179 6,497 1.25×
      hrtimers
      		 13,445 16,911 1.26×
      mprotect
      		 39,384 41,805 1.06×
      mtx
      		 2,638,452 12,345,407 4.68×
      munmap
      		 244.39 416.78 1.71×
      null
      		 52,873 82,297 1.56×
      pipe
      		 173,123 67,483 0.39×
      priv-instr
      		 44,608 67,829 1.52×
      resched
      		 37,421 31,792 0.85×
      switch
      		 10,859 31,112 2.87×
      timermix
      		 14,026 20,686 1.47×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 659.65 617.03 0.94×
      tsc
      		 80,382 148,359 1.85×
      usersyscall
      		 36,538 55,886 1.53×
      vdso
      		 9,168,873 14,755,190 1.61×
      vfork
      		 2,074 3,467 1.67×
      x86syscall
      		 660,628 982,582 1.49×
      yield
      		 238,240 244,590 1.03×
      zero
      		 334,961 459,881 1.37×
      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 90.35 67.67 0.75×
      bitops
      		 16,026 18,342 1.14×
      branch
      		 19,699 34,222 1.74×
      funccall
      		 61.06 81.78 1.34×
      funcret
      		 1,953 2,450 1.25×
      hash
      		 15,396 22,823 1.48×
      intmath
      		 6,958 8,826 1.27×
      nop
      		 33,523 33,036 0.99×
      prime
      		 52,758 64,810 1.23×
      rotate
      		 8,992 9,192 1.02×
      str
      		 91,608 114,055 1.25×
      wcs
      		 65,008 73,079 1.12×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 1,597 1,699 1.06×
      expmath
      		 280.36 467.77 1.67×
      fma
      		 88,860 138,361 1.56×
      fp
      		 26.4 39.75 1.51×
      fractal
      		 0.8 1.4 1.75×
      hyperbolic
      		 271.75 545.23 2.01×
      logmath
      		 449.82 647.63 1.44×
      matrix
      		 315.85 471.36 1.49×
      matrix-3d
      		 57.83 73.89 1.28×
      monte-carlo
      		 29.53 43.04 1.46×
      mpfr
      		 156.77 195.16 1.24×
      powmath
      		 137.76 229.8 1.67×
      trig
      		 175.15 268.3 1.53×
      veccmp
      		 1,899 2,474 1.30×
      vecfp
      		 168.58 234.19 1.39×
      vecmath
      		 402.59 639.79 1.59×
      vecshuf
      		 62.96 72.93 1.16×
      vecwide
      		 2,832 3,518 1.24×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 49,346 65,537 1.33×
      cachehammer
      		 20,997 35,762 1.70×
      cacheline
      		 2.92 2.15 0.74×
      l1cache
      		 17.72 19.35 1.09×
      memcpy
      		 37.15 38.17 1.03×
      memrate
      		 0.17 0.31 1.82×
      memthrash
      		 7.66 8.56 1.12×
      ptr-chase
      		 835,027 1,479,386 1.77×
      spinmem
      		 21.8 0.2 0.01×
      stream
      		 15.51 42.22 2.72×
      vm
      		 293.1 455.58 1.55×

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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