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The e2-medium is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $0.0335 an hour on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 42 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $352.15 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU varies by 979% across sizes.
2.9g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
2.1 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $0.0335 | $0.0178 | 47% | 6 | |
| $0.0335 | $0.0201 | 40% | 2 | |
| $0.0335 | $0.0201 | 40% | 3 | |
| $0.0335 | $0.0201 | 40% | 3 | |
| $0.0352 | $0.0094 | 73% | 5 | |
| $0.0365 | $0.0132 | 64% | 5 | |
| $0.0369 | $0.0198 | 46% | 7 | |
| $0.0369 | $0.0189 | 49% | 2 |
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List prices from Google Cloud in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. Google Cloud pricing page