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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 0.0091 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1452
(All-cores)
1103
(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
2026-07-26T14:42:55.215792

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0233 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
0.0173 USD/h 0.0704 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0264 USD/h 0.073 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0229 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0357 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0364 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0141 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0196 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0219 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0353 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0091 USD/h 0.0755 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0414 USD/h 0.0755 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0406 USD/h 0.0776 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0353 USD/h 0.0777 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0384 USD/h 0.0777 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0255 USD/h 0.0791 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0413 USD/h 0.0791 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0212 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0248 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0345 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0483 USD/h 0.0805 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0404 USD/h 0.0808 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0233 USD/h 0.0811 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0307 USD/h 0.0814 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0432 USD/h 0.0827 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0225 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0308 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0516 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0139 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0274 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0419 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0218 USD/h 0.0864 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0345 USD/h 0.0878 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.019 USD/h 0.0901 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0194 USD/h 0.0938 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0443 USD/h 0.0951 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0332 USD/h 0.0958 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0194 USD/h 0.1064 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0557 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 cost-efficient, general-purpose virtual machine with balanced memory and compute resources for lightweight, entry-level workloads.

      General PurposeBurstable & Budget

      Google Cloud Platform e2-standard-2 is an entry-level, general-purpose instance configured with 2 vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.2 GHz, this virtual machine utilizes 1 physical core with hyper-threading. It features no local storage and no integrated GPU resources. Performance benchmarks indicate that this instance is positioned in the lower tiers, with a Geekbench single-core score of 867.0 and a multi-core score of 1025.0. Memory bandwidth is constrained, measuring 11.77 GB/sec for large uncached blocks. Given its hardware profile, the e2-standard-2 is qualitatively cost-efficient for low-demand applications. It is best suited for lightweight workloads such as static web serving, development environments, small-scale database operations, and basic background processing tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.104Score
      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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0595 50.00% 50.00% -75.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 786,094 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0681 20.00% 20.00% -41.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 918.3 2,411 0.381 10.00% 10.00% -9.20%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 12,072 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.112 10.00% 10.00% -19.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,287 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.968 10.00% 10.00% -0.33%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 867

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,025

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3043
      Compression
      		 31824
      Encryption
      		 2113
      Extended Instructions
      		 1722
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4534
      Integer Maths
      		 8164
      Physics
      		 320
      Prime Numbers
      		 17
      Single Threaded
      		 2287
      String Sorting
      		 4416

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 918
      Database Operations
      		 826
      Memory Latency
      		 84
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23323
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 13687
      Memory Write
      		 13435

      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-small 22 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      e2-medium 24 GiB0
      e2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      e2-standard-4 416 GiB0

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