The n4-standard-16 is a gcp compute instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for compute workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 16 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| n4-highcpu-2 | 2 | 4 |
| n4-highmem-2 | 2 | 16 |
| n4-standard-2 | 2 | 8 |
| n4-highcpu-4 | 4 | 8 |
| n4-highmem-4 | 4 | 32 |
| n4-standard-4 | 4 | 16 |
| n4-highcpu-8 | 8 | 16 |
| n4-highmem-8 | 8 | 64 |
| n4-standard-8 | 8 | 32 |
| n4-highcpu-16 | 16 | 32 |
| n4-highmem-16 | 16 | 128 |
| n4-standard-16 | 16 | 64 |
| n4-highcpu-32 | 32 | 64 |
| n4-highmem-32 | 32 | 256 |
| n4-standard-32 | 32 | 128 |
| n4-highcpu-48 | 48 | 96 |
| n4-highmem-48 | 48 | 384 |
| n4-standard-48 | 48 | 192 |
| n4-highcpu-64 | 64 | 128 |
| n4-highmem-64 | 64 | 512 |
| n4-standard-64 | 64 | 256 |
| n4-highcpu-80 | 80 | 160 |
| n4-highmem-80 | 80 | 640 |
| n4-standard-80 | 80 | 320 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c4a-standard-16 | 16 | 64 |
| c4a-standard-16-lssd | 16 | 64 |
| c2d-standard-16 | 16 | 64 |
| c3d-standard-16 | 16 | 64 |
| c3d-standard-16-lssd | 16 | 64 |

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