Host machine types

List of available Google Cloud Compute Engine machine types with their characteristics.

The following table shows the list of the available Google Cloud Compute Engine machine types that you can use to create a virtual machine sandbox host:

Name
Virtual CPUs
Memory (GB)

f1-micro

0.2

0.6

g1-small

0.5

1.7

e2-micro

0.25

1

e2-small

0.5

2

e2-medium

1

4

e2-standard-2

2

8

e2-standard-4

6

16

e2-standard-8

8

32

e2-standard-16

16

64

e2-standard-32

32

128

e2-highmem-2

2

16

e2-highmem-4

4

32

e2-highmem-8

8

64

e2-highmem-16

16

128

e2-highcpu-2

2

2

e2-highcpu-4

4

4

e2-highcpu-8

8

8

e2-highcpu-16

16

16

e2-highcpu-32

32

32

n1-standard-1

1

3.75

n1-standard-2

2

7.50

n1-standard-4

4

15

n1-standard-8

8

30

n1-highcpu-2

2

1.8

n1-highcpu-4

4

3.6

n1-highcpu-8

8

7.2

n1-highcpu-16

16

14.4

n1-highcpu-32

32

28.8

n1-highmem-2

2

13

n1-highmem-4

4

26

n1-highmem-8

8

52

n1-highmem-16

16

104

n1-highmem-32

32

208

n2-standard-2

2

8

n2-standard-4

4

16

n2-standard-8

8

32

n2-standard-16

16

64

n2-standard-32

32

128

n2-highmem-2

2

16

n2-highmem-4

4

32

n2-highmem-8

8

64

n2-highmem-16

16

128

n2-highmem-32

32

256

n2-highcpu-2

2

2

n2-highcpu-4

4

4

n2-highcpu-8

8

8

n2-highcpu-16

16

16

n2-highcpu-32

32

32

n2d-standard-2

2

8

n2d-standard-4

4

16

n2d-standard-8

8

32

n2d-standard-16

16

64

n2d-standard-32

32

128

n2d-highmem-2

2

16

n2d-highmem-4

4

32

n2d-highmem-8

8

64

n2d-highmem-16

16

128

n2d-highmem-32

32

256

n2d-highcpu-2

2

2

n2d-highcpu-4

4

4

n2d-highcpu-8

8

8

n2d-highcpu-16

16

16

n2d-highcpu-32

32

32

Choose your appropriate machine type

Instruqt charges based on resource usage, so make sure you choose the appropriate machine type for your workloads. An n1-standard-2 machine type is a good place to start for most use cases.

Use the free -m command on Linux hosts to view the current memory usage.

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