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Amount of vCPU
<2 vCPU
>224 vCPU
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Amount of Memory
<128 GB
>786 GB
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What will run on this VM
Do you need in-memory encryption; Confidential Compute?
Processor type?
Application sensitivity to performance fluctuations
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N2
General purpose
Balanced price/performance across a wide range of VM shapes
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vCPUs | 2 - 80 |
Memory | 2 - 640 GB |
Maximum total PD size | 257 TB |
Maximum egress bandwidth | 10-100 Gbps |
Local SSDs | Yes |
GPUs | No |
CPU platform | Cascade Lake, Ice Lake |
Recommended for the following workloads
Web serving, App serving, Back office applications, Medium-large databases, Cache, Media/streaming
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N2D
General purpose
Balanced price/performance across a wide range of VM shapes
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vCPUs | 2 - 224 |
Memory | 2 - 786 GB |
Maximum total PD size | 257 TB |
Maximum egress bandwidth | 32 - 100 Gbps |
Local SSDs | Yes |
GPUs | No |
CPU platform | AMD EPYC Rome, AMD EYPC Milan |
Recommended for the following workloads
Web serving, App serving, Back office applications, Medium-large databases, Cache, Media/streaming
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E2
General purpose. Both: AMD and Intel, cannot be specified
Day-to-day computing at lower cost
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vCPUs | 2 - 32 |
Memory | 8 - 128 GB |
Maximum total PD size | 257 TB |
Maximum egress bandwidth | 16 Gbps |
Local SSDs | No |
GPUs | No |
CPU platform | Skylake / Broadwell / Haswell / AMD EPYC Rome |
Recommended for the following workloads
Web serving, App serving, Back office applications, Small-medium database, Microservices, Virtual desktops, Development environments
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