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e2-small by Google Cloud Platform

e2-small is a Efficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/4 shared physical core) and 2 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0067 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
356
(All-cores)
271
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
334003
Name
e2-small
Description
Efficient Instance, 2 vCPU (1/4 shared physical core) and 2 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-26T04:19:07.007362

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0172 USD/h 0.0495 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0297 USD/h 0.0495 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0297 USD/h 0.0495 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0297 USD/h 0.0495 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0127 USD/h 0.0519 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0195 USD/h 0.0539 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0169 USD/h 0.0544 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0264 USD/h 0.0544 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0269 USD/h 0.0544 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0104 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0145 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0162 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.026 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0067 USD/h 0.0557 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0305 USD/h 0.0557 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0299 USD/h 0.0573 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0261 USD/h 0.0574 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0284 USD/h 0.0574 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0188 USD/h 0.0584 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0305 USD/h 0.0584 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0156 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0183 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0255 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0357 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0298 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0172 USD/h 0.0599 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0226 USD/h 0.0601 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0319 USD/h 0.061 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0167 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0227 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0381 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0102 USD/h 0.0637 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0202 USD/h 0.0637 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.031 USD/h 0.0637 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0161 USD/h 0.0638 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0255 USD/h 0.0648 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.014 USD/h 0.0665 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0143 USD/h 0.0692 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0327 USD/h 0.0702 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0245 USD/h 0.0707 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0144 USD/h 0.0785 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0411 USD/h 0.0792 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
1
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7B12
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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, arat, npt, nrip_save, umip, rdpid
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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 machine designed for lightweight development environments, microservices, and low-intensity background tasks.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-small is a shared-core virtual machine instance designed for entry-level workloads. Powered by an AMD EPYC 7B12 processor on the x86_64 architecture, it provides 2 vCPUs with a fractional allocation of one-quarter of a physical core, paired with 2.0 GB of system memory. The instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks, including stress-ng and Passmark CPU tests, generally fall within the bottom 10%, though single-threaded gzip compression achieves average tier results. With limited memory bandwidth and a shared CPU resource model, the e2-small offers a highly cost-efficient option for low-demand applications. It is best suited for lightweight tasks such as microservices, development environments, and basic web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.018Score
      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) 14,158 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0075 50.00% 50.00% -91.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 135,189 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0117 20.00% 20.00% -58.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 335.5 2,411 0.139 10.00% 10.00% -17.90%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 4,561 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.0425 10.00% 10.00% -27.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 398.7 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.169 10.00% 10.00% -16.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 521
      Compression
      		 5713
      Encryption
      		 189
      Extended Instructions
      		 304
      Floating Point Maths
      		 822
      Integer Maths
      		 3173
      Physics
      		 60
      Prime Numbers
      		 3
      Single Threaded
      		 399
      String Sorting
      		 667

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 335
      Database Operations
      		 142
      Memory Latency
      		 218
      Memory Read Cached
      		 5275
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 2134
      Memory Write
      		 2123

      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-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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