Dedicated Hosts

Physical servers for your tenant.

Dedicated physical hosts provisioned exclusively for your account. Full control over instance placement, licensing compliance, and host-level isolation.

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DEDICATED HOSTPhysical Server • Single-Tenant • us-central1-a100% IsolatedUNDERLYING HARDWARECPU0CPU1TITAN100 Gbps NetworkingLocal NVMe StorageTenant VPC BoundaryDB Nodec2-standard-16vCPU Binding100%MemoryReservedHard-pinned to hostApp Serverc2-standard-8vCPU Binding100%MemoryReservedHard-pinned to hostWorkerc2-standard-32vCPU Binding100%MemoryReservedHard-pinned to hostBYOL EnabledCompliance

Single-tenant

Tenancy

BYOL ready

Compliance

Full control

Placement

Host-level

Isolation

Full control over your hardware.

Physical isolation, BYOL compliance, and instance placement control.

Single-tenant hardware

Physical servers dedicated to your account. Instances from different accounts never share the same host.

BYOL compliance

Per-socket and per-core licensed software counts physical cores on your dedicated host. Oracle, SQL Server, and Windows Server BYOL supported.

Instance placement control

Pin specific VMs to specific hosts. Manage affinity and anti-affinity rules for compliance requirements.

Maintenance windows

Control when host maintenance occurs. Set your own maintenance windows aligned with your change-management process.

Diverse machine types

Run any standard machine type on your dedicated host. Mix multiple VM sizes on a single host to maximize utilization.

Same cloud networking

Dedicated hosts connect to the same VPC, load balancers, and networking fabric as shared-tenancy instances.

Getting started

Launch your first instance in three steps. CLI, console, or API — your choice.

Terminal
ur compute sole-tenancy hosts create my-host \
  --type=n2-host-type-80 \
  --zone=eu-west1-b

Built for enterprise requirements.

BYOL licensing, regulatory compliance, and performance isolation.

Bring your own licenses

Run Oracle, SQL Server, and Windows Server with existing licenses. Dedicated hosts provide the physical core counts required for license compliance.

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Suggested configuration

N2-host-80 · Windows Server · BYOL

Estimate your costs

Create detailed configurations to see exactly how much your architecture will cost. Pay for what you use, down to the second.

Configuration 1

Estimated: $2287.60/mo

Platform & Architecture

Compute Resources

GB

Storage

GB

Cost Optimization

Reserved Host (1yr)Save 40% with 1-year reservation
Config 1 cost$2287.60

Cost details

$2287.60

Full hardware isolation. BYOL support.

Configuration 1
$2287.60
1 vCPU × 512 GB Compute$2277.60
Persistent Storage$10.00
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Works seamlessly with

Managed Instance Groups
VPC Networks
Cloud Monitoring
IAM
Cloud Logging
Cloud SQL

Frequently asked questions

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