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 0.0292 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4,087
(All-cores)
2,059
(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
2026-10-23T08:42:30.249734

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0292 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0306 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0306 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0391 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0392 USD/h 0.0808 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0508 USD/h 0.0848 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0468 USD/h 0.0878 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0484 USD/h 0.0908 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0569 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
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 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

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.58Score
      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) — 1,919,289 ops/sec — 50.00% 0.00% —
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) — 11,728,058 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 108,466 MB/sec 0.58 10.00% 100.00% -42.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU — 2,365 Mops/s — 10.00% 0.00% —

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 438.48 422.57 0.96×
      bitops
      		 149,157 295,642 1.98×
      branch
      		 275,287 544,508 1.98×
      funccall
      		 2,092 4,108 1.96×
      funcret
      		 37,205 75,611 2.03×
      hash
      		 169,609 335,031 1.98×
      intmath
      		 39,388 77,767 1.97×
      nop
      		 245,717 485,647 1.98×
      prime
      		 505,486 1,005,912 1.99×
      rotate
      		 178,285 353,262 1.98×
      str
      		 685,262 1,348,242 1.97×
      wcs
      		 223,284 447,259 2.00×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,607 7,093 1.97×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 682.03 1,345 1.97×
      zlib
      		 37.3 84.06 2.25×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 41,603 74,790 1.80×
      clone
      		 279.06 353.35 1.27×
      context
      		 4,289 8,432 1.97×
      cpu-sched
      		 64.22 138.4 2.16×
      eventfd
      		 63,429 344,510 5.43×
      fault
      		 19,811 35,119 1.77×
      fork
      		 5,048 9,501 1.88×
      getrandom
      		 63,285 124,868 1.97×
      hrtimers
      		 205,621 298,446 1.45×
      mprotect
      		 792,821 1,005,807 1.27×
      mtx
      		 23,858,215 131,823,448 5.53×
      munmap
      		 3,914 7,147 1.83×
      null
      		 701,435 1,384,231 1.97×
      pipe
      		 1,065,599 1,619,684 1.52×
      priv-instr
      		 948,285 1,879,646 1.98×
      resched
      		 536,477 317,496 0.59×
      switch
      		 94,460 955,112 10.11×
      timermix
      		 538,084 1,059,424 1.97×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,529 9,438 1.11×
      vdso
      		 45,573,782 90,286,694 1.98×
      vfork
      		 32,339 59,608 1.84×
      yield
      		 2,580,959 2,433,714 0.94×
      zero
      		 2,967,274 5,880,297 1.98×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 2,144 4,206 1.96×
      expmath
      		 414.28 818.59 1.98×
      fma
      		 810,930 1,595,651 1.97×
      fp
      		 175.2 341.36 1.95×
      fractal
      		 7.8 15.2 1.95×
      hyperbolic
      		 409.19 808.91 1.98×
      logmath
      		 487.15 961.49 1.97×
      matrix
      		 6,671 13,424 2.01×
      matrix-3d
      		 668.49 1,392 2.08×
      monte-carlo
      		 268.36 527.41 1.97×
      mpfr
      		 1,462 2,899 1.98×
      powmath
      		 275.94 545.46 1.98×
      trig
      		 546.55 1,081 1.98×
      veccmp
      		 20,355 40,261 1.98×
      vecfp
      		 1,736 3,212 1.85×
      vecmath
      		 4,821 9,503 1.97×
      vecshuf
      		 1,050 2,064 1.97×
      vecwide
      		 29,794 58,829 1.97×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9 17.8 1.98×
      bsearch
      		 351.02 695.72 1.98×
      bubblesort
      		 1.4 2.8 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 408.78 806.74 1.97×
      heapsort
      		 13.6 26.8 1.97×
      hsearch
      		 7,601 15,015 1.98×
      insertionsort
      		 7.6 15.2 2.00×
      malloc
      		 1,770,202 4,761,193 2.69×
      mcontend
      		 1,471 2,560 1.74×
      mergesort
      		 35.6 70.4 1.98×
      qsort
      		 25.2 49.8 1.98×
      skiplist
      		 7,110 14,082 1.98×
      tree
      		 0.8 1.6 2.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 401,739 447,108 1.11×
      cachehammer
      		 1,476,033 2,833,904 1.92×
      cacheline
      		 43.98 86.67 1.97×
      l1cache
      		 122.22 242.13 1.98×
      memcpy
      		 724.18 1,424 1.97×
      memrate
      		 4.55 8.69 1.91×
      memthrash
      		 68.73 80.4 1.17×
      ptr-chase
      		 7,923,370 15,481,208 1.95×
      spinmem
      		 3,866 1,650 0.43×
      stream
      		 25.81 98.93 3.83×
      vm
      		 158,562 242,543 1.53×

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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      n4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      n4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      n4a-standard-4 416 GiB0

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