Google Compute Engine Machine Type Comparison

This webapp helps to find the optimal Google Compute Engine (GCE) machine type or instance in the many Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions. A lot of information has been collected from various Google Cloud websites and different sources.

Machines

Here you can find an overview of all 320 different Google Compute Engine machine types. You can also find the average costs per GCE machine type across all Google Cloud regions in this overview.

You have the choice between 188 machine types with Intel CPU, 115 CPU machine types with AMD CPU and 34 CPU machine types with Arm-based processors. 102 machine types are certified for SAP application and 22 machine types are certified for SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

Disks

Here you can find an overview of 9 different disk types for your instances.

Images

Here you can find an overview of many preconfigured public images that have compatible Linux, UNIX or Windows operating systems.

Regions

Here you can find an overview of all 40 Google Cloud regions and the corresponding zones. A total of 13 million public IPv4 addresses are assigned to all Google Cloud Platform regions. There is also a map view with all Google Cloud Platform regions. You can also find the available Google Compute Engine machine types per GCE machine series (CPU type and CPU plattform) in this overview. A cost overview of the persistent disk types in the regions can also be found in this section.

Of the 40 regions, 16 regions have a low carbon impact. This means that this regions have a Google CFE% of at least 75%, or, if CFE% information is not available, a grid carbon intensity of maximum 200 gCO2eq/kWh.

In total, you have the freedom to choose between 6542 different combinations of Google Compute Engine machine types and Google Cloud regions. For each combination the cost per hour, month with sustained use discounts (SUD), month with 1 year commitment (CUD) and price per month with 3 year commitment (CUD) was calculated. The cost of paid "premium" operating system licenses, such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Microsoft Windows Server, was also calculated.

Instance Picker

With the Instance Picker you can quickly and easily compare all possible Google Compute Engine machine types and instances in all Google Cloud Platform regions.

You can set filters for each column and sort them. Filters can be combined.

A good first filter is to set the preferred region. You can also filter by parts of the region. Example europe to filter all machine types in Europe.

Filter

You can filter and sort all fields in the Instance Picker.

Sort and more

Keyboard shortcuts

You can navigate the Instance Picker with your keyboard.

Press Ctrl + / to focus the vCPU filter.

Use the arrow keys (← ↑ → ↓) to move focus up, down, left and right. Tab will move the focus horizontally until the last cell and then move on to the next row. Shift + Tab will move the focus horizontal backward until the first cell and then move back to the previous row.

Pressing the Space key on a cell will select the cells row, or deselect the row if already selected.

With the following keyboard shortcuts you can copy selected row from the table in CSV format to your clipboard:

• Ctrl + c : Copy selected rows with shown column
• Ctrl + x : Copy selected rows with all column

The grid header also supports full keyboard navigation:

• Press Enter to toggle the sorting state of that column.
• Press Ctrl + Enter to open the menu for the focused header.
• When a menu is open, simply press Esc to close it and the focus will return to the header.

Resources of the Information

The information was obtained from the following different Google websites: