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n4a-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n4a-standard-2 is a 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 0.0293 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4087
(All-cores)
2059
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
999921001
Name
n4a-standard-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
n4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
13
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-09T14:15:49.741164

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0293 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0293 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0323 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0339 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.034 USD/h 0.0808 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0374 USD/h 0.0848 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0386 USD/h 0.0878 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.04 USD/h 0.0908 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0418 USD/h 0.095 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N3
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
112 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
112 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti, ecv, afp, wfxt
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

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

      An entry-level ARM-based virtual machine featuring dedicated physical cores, balanced memory, and strong single-threaded compression performance for lightweight workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4a-standard-2 is an arm64 general-purpose server featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs on an ARMv8 Neoverse-N3 processor running at 3.4 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of RAM. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-threaded gzip compression at 32.69 GB/sec and average single-core CPU performance. However, multi-core capabilities and memory bandwidth are limited, with multi-core stress-ng performance and cached read-only memory bandwidth falling into the weak and poor categories, respectively. Static web serving throughput is also weak at 5.09 GB/sec. This server provides a cost-efficient entry point for ARM-based workloads, making it suitable for lightweight single-threaded applications, basic web serving, and development environments that do not demand high parallel processing power or intensive memory throughput.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.593Score
      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.Partial coverage: missing component benchmark(s): Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), PassMark Memory Mark (composite), PassMark single-thread CPU.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) — 1,910,660 ops/sec — 50.00% 0.00% —
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) — 11,608,287 ops/sec — 20.00% 0.00% —
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) — 2,416 — 10.00% 0.00% —
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 64,008 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.593 10.00% 100.00% -40.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU — 2,364 Mops/s — 10.00% 0.00% —

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      n4a-highcpu-1 12 GiB0
      n4a-standard-1 14 GiB0
      n4a-highmem-1 18 GiB0
      n4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      n4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      n4a-standard-4 416 GiB0

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