[ti_ranger]

> A t3.large only has a "baseline performance" of 30%

> Instead, I'd compare e2-std-2 to m5.large like you started to do so.

Yes, a "baseline performance" of 100% would more or less be an M-family instance, but with additional overhead to manage noisy neighbors etc. (and thus T-family is slightly more expensive for the same constant performance than M-family). T-family is specifically for non-constant workloads where CPU over-commit provides value, but without memory over-commit, which can result in highly-variable performance.

Neither T-family or M-family do "memory stealing" aka memory overcommit, like GCP's E2 seemingly does (but the pricing page doesn't explicitly state this, and your detailed comparisons omit this crucial difference).

So, apples and oranges; you shouldn't really "compare" without benchmarking ...

What is the "baseline" memory GCP E2 instances get?