Huh? The i3.xlarge is clearly two slices of a full 2T device. The performance numbers in the text are for eight of those. While it'd be great if we had 8 of our

Huh? The i3.xlarge is clearly two slices of a full 2T device. The performance numbers in the text are for eight of those. While it'd be great if we had 8 of ours available instead of just two, I don't understand how you believe you'd replace even more than one GCE VM with a single i3.xlarge. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.