t2a-standard-2

t2a-standard-2 is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB memory (Ampere Altra). In Iowa it costs $0.077 per hour on demand ($56.21 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.0415 per hour. It is sold in 3 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Committed use prices are billed monthly. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot
Iowa us-central1	$0.077	$0.0415
Netherlands europe-west4	$0.0809	$0.0483
Singapore asia-southeast1	$0.095	$0.0337

Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Architecture	arm64
Processor	Ampere Altra

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	8

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 10 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	Network disks only
Max persistent disks	128

Instance details	Value
Instance type	t2a-standard-2
Family	t2a
Category	General purpose

Other	Value
Series	T2A
Specs source	Compute Engine API

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Other t2a sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
t2a-standard-1	1	4	$0.0385
t2a-standard-2	2	8	$0.077
t2a-standard-4	4	16	$0.154
t2a-standard-8	8	32	$0.308
t2a-standard-16	16	64	$0.616
t2a-standard-32	32	128	$1.232
t2a-standard-48	48	192	$1.848

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Google Cloud Billing Catalog API. Compare all GCP Compute Engine sizes.