The g2-standard-12 is a gcp compute instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for compute workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 12 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| g2-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |
| g2-standard-8 | 8 | 32 |
| g2-standard-12 | 12 | 48 |
| g2-standard-16 | 16 | 64 |
| g2-standard-24 | 24 | 96 |
| g2-standard-32 | 32 | 128 |
| g2-standard-48 | 48 | 192 |
| g2-standard-96 | 96 | 384 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c4-standard-16 | 16 | 60 |
| g4-standard-12 | 12 | 45 |
| n1-highmem-8 | 8 | 52 |
| c4-highmem-8-lssd | 8 | 62 |
| c4-standard-16-lssd | 16 | 60 |

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