r4.16xlarge vs f1.16xlarge

Instance Typer4.16xlargef1.16xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedFPGA
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
4 – 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
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargef1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
Generationsr4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r6i.16xlarge, r7i.16xlarge, r8i.16xlarge
RDSdb.r4.16xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.16xlarge
OpenSearchr4.16xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.16xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units201201
Instance StorageEBS only4 x 940 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMeunsupported
Dedicated Throughput12000 MBps14000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth14000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance75000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance75000 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 Diff1.00x2.87x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r4.16xlarge
f1.16xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a14.5200
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.384015.8400
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)5.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)5.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)5.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)5.1216n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)8.9600n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.672015.8480
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.7424n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)4.7424n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)4.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)4.9920n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)5.1072n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)5.1200n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)4.2560n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)4.256013.2000
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)4.256013.2000
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