The c3-standard-4-lssd is a gcp compute instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for compute workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 4 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c3-highcpu-4 | 4 | 8 |
| c3-highmem-4 | 4 | 32 |
| c3-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |
| c3-standard-4-lssd | 4 | 16 |
| c3-highcpu-8 | 8 | 16 |
| c3-highmem-8 | 8 | 64 |
| c3-standard-8 | 8 | 32 |
| c3-standard-8-lssd | 8 | 32 |
| c3-highcpu-22 | 22 | 44 |
| c3-highmem-22 | 22 | 176 |
| c3-standard-22 | 22 | 88 |
| c3-standard-22-lssd | 22 | 88 |
| c3-highcpu-44 | 44 | 88 |
| c3-highmem-44 | 44 | 352 |
| c3-standard-44 | 44 | 176 |
| c3-standard-44-lssd | 44 | 176 |
| c3-highcpu-88 | 88 | 176 |
| c3-highmem-88 | 88 | 704 |
| c3-standard-88 | 88 | 352 |
| c3-standard-88-lssd | 88 | 352 |
| c3-highcpu-176 | 176 | 352 |
| c3-highmem-176 | 176 | 1408 |
| c3-standard-176 | 176 | 704 |
| c3-standard-176-lssd | 176 | 704 |
| c3-highcpu-192-metal | 192 | 512 |
| c3-highmem-192-metal | 192 | 1536 |
| c3-standard-192-metal | 192 | 768 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c4-standard-4-lssd | 4 | 15 |
| c4-standard-4 | 4 | 15 |
| c2d-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |
| c3d-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |
| n4-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |

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