i3.16xlarge vs f1.16xlarge

Instance Typei3.16xlargef1.16xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedFPGA
DetailsNoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
Genomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security

f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
1 – Generation
16xlarge – Size
vCPUs6464
Memory488 GiB976 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlargef1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
Generationsi3.16xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i7i.16xlarge
Variantsi3p.16xlarge
OpenSearchi3.16xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201201
Instance Storage8 x 1900 NVMe SSD4 x 940 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMesupported
Dedicated Throughput14000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth14000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1750 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance20 Gigabit25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces15
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Addresses per Interface50
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.48x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i3.16xlarge
f1.16xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a14.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)5.216015.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.7920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)5.8560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)5.9520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)5.9840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)5.504015.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)6.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)6.0160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)6.0540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)6.0540n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)6.5470n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)6.5600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)6.5920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)7.9680n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)5.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.5040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)5.6640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.6640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.7790n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.7920n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.9920n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.992013.2000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.992013.2000
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