a1.4xlarge vs f1.4xlarge
| a1.4xlarge | f1.4xlarge |
| General purpose | FPGA |
| Obsolete. Not recommended for use Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments. a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor 1 – Generation 4xlarge – Size | Genomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) 1 – Generation 4xlarge – Size |
| 16 | 16 |
| 32 GiB | 244 GiB |
| arm64 | n/a |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.3 GHz | |
| 1 | 0 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | f1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 58 | |
| EBS only | 1 x 940 NVMe SSD |
| default | |
| supported | |
| required | |
| 3500 MBps | 3500 MBps |
| 3500 Mbps | |
| 437.5 Mbps | |
| 20000 IOPS | |
| 20000 IOPS | |
| 3500 Mbps | |
| 437.5 Mbps | |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | |
| 1 | |
| 30 | |
| 30 | |
| yes | no |
| required | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 8.02x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.4xlarge | f1.4xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| Europe | Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1) | n/a | 3.4680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.4080 | 3.6300 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.4608 | 3.8120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.4656 | 3.9600 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.4704 | 3.9620 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.5136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.5328 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.4080 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.4080 | 3.3000 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 3.3000 |