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 0.0073 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
2026-10-24T12:01:06.416609

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0263 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
0.0139 USD/h 0.0519 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0194 USD/h 0.0539 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0192 USD/h 0.0544 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0279 USD/h 0.0544 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0293 USD/h 0.0544 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0119 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0149 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0177 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0327 USD/h 0.0545 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0073 USD/h 0.0557 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0333 USD/h 0.0557 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0266 USD/h 0.0573 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0284 USD/h 0.0574 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0308 USD/h 0.0574 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0185 USD/h 0.0584 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.027 USD/h 0.0584 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0179 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0189 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0307 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0357 USD/h 0.0594 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0324 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0277 USD/h 0.0599 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0283 USD/h 0.0601 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0366 USD/h 0.061 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.02 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0317 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0381 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0116 USD/h 0.0637 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0242 USD/h 0.0637 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0382 USD/h 0.0637 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0149 USD/h 0.0638 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0304 USD/h 0.0648 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0159 USD/h 0.0665 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0198 USD/h 0.0692 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0373 USD/h 0.0702 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0358 USD/h 0.0707 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0156 USD/h 0.0785 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0475 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
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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

      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.0074 50.00% 50.00% -91.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 135,189 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.012 20.00% 20.00% -59.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 340 2,416 0.14 10.00% 10.00% -18.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 4,561 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.042 10.00% 10.00% -27.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 400 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.17 10.00% 10.00% -16.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 521
      Compression
      		 5,713
      Encryption
      		 189
      Extended Instructions
      		 304
      Floating Point Maths
      		 822
      Integer Maths
      		 3,173
      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
      		 5,275
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 2,134
      Memory Write
      		 2,123

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 132.33 132.26 1.00×
      bitops
      		 33,128 37,494 1.13×
      branch
      		 39,704 71,333 1.80×
      funccall
      		 131.08 161.12 1.23×
      funcret
      		 4,058 5,156 1.27×
      hash
      		 21,568 44,309 2.05×
      intmath
      		 14,059 18,378 1.31×
      nop
      		 67,669 68,519 1.01×
      prime
      		 100,431 126,690 1.26×
      rotate
      		 18,524 18,672 1.01×
      str
      		 201,634 221,999 1.10×
      wcs
      		 133,837 148,171 1.11×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 827.61 755.12 0.91×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 171.37 247.56 1.44×
      zlib
      		 16.17 25.84 1.60×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 4,702 7,494 1.59×
      clone
      		 45.72 46.75 1.02×
      context
      		 840.17 1,380 1.64×
      cpu-sched
      		 56.95 62.49 1.10×
      eventfd
      		 6,973 21,413 3.07×
      fault
      		 1,793 2,931 1.63×
      fork
      		 734.79 1,317 1.79×
      getrandom
      		 7,849 6,016 0.77×
      hrtimers
      		 29,533 33,285 1.13×
      mprotect
      		 83,333 84,678 1.02×
      mtx
      		 4,722,702 22,201,938 4.70×
      munmap
      		 482.39 864.36 1.79×
      null
      		 106,958 167,229 1.56×
      pipe
      		 367,369 145,798 0.40×
      priv-instr
      		 91,034 144,521 1.59×
      resched
      		 72,185 51,134 0.71×
      switch
      		 24,257 63,307 2.61×
      timermix
      		 36,806 52,681 1.43×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 1,356 1,360 1.00×
      tsc
      		 162,318 304,473 1.88×
      usersyscall
      		 73,049 116,347 1.59×
      vdso
      		 18,660,299 29,960,694 1.61×
      vfork
      		 3,915 7,024 1.79×
      x86syscall
      		 1,346,991 2,071,611 1.54×
      yield
      		 481,629 478,470 0.99×
      zero
      		 678,514 960,378 1.42×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 3,241 3,563 1.10×
      expmath
      		 597.09 939.84 1.57×
      fma
      		 186,809 288,711 1.55×
      fp
      		 55.2 81.56 1.48×
      fractal
      		 1.8 2.8 1.56×
      hyperbolic
      		 784.38 1,189 1.52×
      logmath
      		 923.6 1,329 1.44×
      matrix
      		 648.93 975.37 1.50×
      matrix-3d
      		 133.97 157.42 1.18×
      monte-carlo
      		 51.81 84.3 1.63×
      mpfr
      		 327.4 387.15 1.18×
      powmath
      		 290.74 467.22 1.61×
      trig
      		 359.62 548.72 1.53×
      veccmp
      		 3,815 4,907 1.29×
      vecfp
      		 350.79 474.76 1.35×
      vecmath
      		 807.36 1,305 1.62×
      vecshuf
      		 126.95 148.56 1.17×
      vecwide
      		 5,703 7,234 1.27×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 2 2 1.00×
      bsearch
      		 61.99 74.56 1.20×
      bubblesort
      		 0.2 - -
      fibsearch
      		 73.57 82.38 1.12×
      heapsort
      		 2.2 2.4 1.09×
      hsearch
      		 1,747 1,993 1.14×
      insertionsort
      		 2.6 2.4 0.92×
      malloc
      		 86,431 355,127 4.11×
      mcontend
      		 62.34 145.15 2.33×
      mergesort
      		 6.6 9.2 1.39×
      qsort
      		 4.4 6 1.36×
      skiplist
      		 1,430 2,167 1.52×
      tree
      		 0.2 - -
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 136,251 167,519 1.23×
      cachehammer
      		 44,771 83,035 1.85×
      cacheline
      		 0.52 6.42 12.35×
      l1cache
      		 35.13 39.93 1.14×
      memcpy
      		 77.62 79.39 1.02×
      memrate
      		 0.36 0.35 0.97×
      memthrash
      		 19.89 18.87 0.95×
      ptr-chase
      		 1,694,555 3,177,888 1.88×
      spinmem
      		 44.8 - -
      stream
      		 32.14 90.44 2.81×
      vm
      		 796.45 9,970 12.52×

      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

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