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Amount of vCPU

<2 vCPU

>224 vCPU

vCPU

Amount of Memory

<128 GB

>786 GB

GB

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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