e2-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

e2-standard-2 is a Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0099 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,452
(All-cores)
1,103
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
335002
Name
e2-standard-2
Description
Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T22:06:25.427751

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0356 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0402 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0402 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0402 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0188 USD/h 0.0704 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0263 USD/h 0.073 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0261 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0378 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0396 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0161 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0203 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0239 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0443 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0099 USD/h 0.0755 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.045 USD/h 0.0755 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0361 USD/h 0.0776 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0384 USD/h 0.0777 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0418 USD/h 0.0777 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0251 USD/h 0.0791 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0366 USD/h 0.0791 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0243 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0256 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0415 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0483 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.044 USD/h 0.0808 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0376 USD/h 0.0811 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0384 USD/h 0.0814 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0496 USD/h 0.0827 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0271 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0429 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0516 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0157 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0327 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0518 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0202 USD/h 0.0864 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0412 USD/h 0.0878 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0216 USD/h 0.0901 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0269 USD/h 0.0938 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0506 USD/h 0.0951 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0485 USD/h 0.0958 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0211 USD/h 0.1064 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0643 USD/h 0.1072 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
55 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
55 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
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 general-purpose compute instance featuring two virtual CPUs and eight gigabytes of memory for lightweight cloud workloads and testing environments.

      General PurposeBurstable & Budget

      Google Cloud Platform e2-standard-2 is an entry-level general-purpose instance featuring an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.2 GHz with 2 virtual CPUs, 1 physical core, and 8.0 GB of system memory. Equipped with 55 MB L3 cache, AVX extensions, and AES acceleration, the instance omits AVX-512 support, local SSD storage, and GPU processing units. Benchmark testing demonstrates modest execution capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 867.0, multi-core score of 1025.0, static web serving throughput of 1.45 GB/sec, and Redis SET throughput of 1.35 million operations per second. Uncached memory read bandwidth measures 11.77 GB/sec. Offering a cost-effective 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio, the e2-standard-2 is suited for lightweight workloads such as basic web serving, small staging environments, low-traffic microservices, and background administrative applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.1Score
      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) 112,802 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.058 50.00% 50.00% -76.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 786,094 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.066 20.00% 20.00% -42.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 920 2,416 0.38 10.00% 10.00% -9.20%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 12,072 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.11 10.00% 10.00% -20.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,287 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 867

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,025

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,043
      Compression
      		 31,824
      Encryption
      		 2,113
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,722
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4,534
      Integer Maths
      		 8,164
      Physics
      		 320
      Prime Numbers
      		 17
      Single Threaded
      		 2,287
      String Sorting
      		 4,416

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 918
      Database Operations
      		 826
      Memory Latency
      		 84
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,323
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 13,687
      Memory Write
      		 13,435

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 520.97 522.73 1.00×
      bitops
      		 135,306 157,832 1.17×
      branch
      		 161,058 293,059 1.82×
      funccall
      		 528.48 684.47 1.30×
      funcret
      		 16,419 21,276 1.30×
      hash
      		 129,512 198,876 1.54×
      intmath
      		 57,107 75,635 1.32×
      nop
      		 277,822 281,516 1.01×
      prime
      		 380,243 469,919 1.24×
      rotate
      		 75,523 76,191 1.01×
      str
      		 778,446 970,097 1.25×
      wcs
      		 552,483 624,078 1.13×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,004 3,061 1.02×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 716 1,019 1.42×
      zlib
      		 55.13 78.16 1.42×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 19,324 31,156 1.61×
      clone
      		 168.4 187.28 1.11×
      context
      		 3,483 5,663 1.63×
      cpu-sched
      		 70.28 117.71 1.67×
      eventfd
      		 29,269 102,191 3.49×
      fault
      		 7,035 11,801 1.68×
      fork
      		 3,107 6,447 2.07×
      getrandom
      		 42,737 54,622 1.28×
      hrtimers
      		 167,509 144,367 0.86×
      mprotect
      		 359,707 361,787 1.01×
      mtx
      		 19,207,640 45,850,828 2.39×
      munmap
      		 2,118 3,898 1.84×
      null
      		 446,336 695,470 1.56×
      pipe
      		 1,555,893 684,096 0.44×
      priv-instr
      		 370,848 595,535 1.61×
      resched
      		 172,710 124,909 0.72×
      switch
      		 107,496 264,683 2.46×
      timermix
      		 138,725 199,582 1.44×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 5,705 5,910 1.04×
      tsc
      		 656,416 1,243,779 1.89×
      usersyscall
      		 300,511 482,192 1.60×
      vdso
      		 77,608,964 126,947,131 1.64×
      vfork
      		 19,414 32,738 1.69×
      x86syscall
      		 5,664,602 8,832,303 1.56×
      yield
      		 1,078,746 819,066 0.76×
      zero
      		 2,797,083 3,922,231 1.40×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,505 14,396 1.07×
      expmath
      		 2,602 4,022 1.55×
      fma
      		 768,439 1,186,819 1.54×
      fp
      		 223.1 325.17 1.46×
      fractal
      		 6.6 11 1.67×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,887 4,869 1.69×
      logmath
      		 3,788 5,422 1.43×
      matrix
      		 2,645 4,040 1.53×
      matrix-3d
      		 565.51 748.19 1.32×
      monte-carlo
      		 204.38 321.02 1.57×
      mpfr
      		 1,355 1,659 1.22×
      powmath
      		 1,136 1,862 1.64×
      trig
      		 1,462 2,231 1.53×
      veccmp
      		 15,745 20,592 1.31×
      vecfp
      		 1,450 2,110 1.45×
      vecmath
      		 3,351 5,400 1.61×
      vecshuf
      		 523.12 608.37 1.16×
      vecwide
      		 23,119 29,673 1.28×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.2 8.8 1.07×
      bsearch
      		 254.61 322.72 1.27×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
      fibsearch
      		 305.1 341.69 1.12×
      heapsort
      		 8.8 11.2 1.27×
      hsearch
      		 6,997 8,709 1.24×
      insertionsort
      		 10.6 11.2 1.06×
      malloc
      		 1,245,767 2,637,864 2.12×
      mcontend
      		 246.98 270.12 1.09×
      mergesort
      		 26.4 39.8 1.51×
      qsort
      		 17.8 25.2 1.42×
      skiplist
      		 6,000 9,090 1.51×
      tree
      		 0.6 1.2 2.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 436,992 449,784 1.03×
      cachehammer
      		 170,325 233,905 1.37×
      cacheline
      		 22.71 45.19 1.99×
      l1cache
      		 161.4 155.49 0.96×
      memcpy
      		 210.41 166.1 0.79×
      memrate
      		 1.37 1.35 0.99×
      memthrash
      		 60.07 83.14 1.38×
      ptr-chase
      		 6,070,538 11,586,327 1.91×
      spinmem
      		 179.19 82.79 0.46×
      stream
      		 112.26 329.73 2.94×
      vm
      		 58,744 117,152 1.99×

      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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