i3.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge

Instance Typei3.2xlargef1.2xlarge
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
2xlarge – Size
Genomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security

f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory61 GiB122 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
Generationsi2.2xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi3en.2xlarge
OpenSearchi3.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units3131
Instance Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD1 x 470 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMesupported
Dedicated Throughput1750 MBps1700 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1700 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput212.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth1700 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput212.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
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
i3.2xlarge
f1.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)n/a1.7340
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.65201.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.7320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7440n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.7480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.68801.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.7520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.8180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.8200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.8240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.9960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.68801.9800
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.68801.9810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.6880n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.7080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.7080n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.7220n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.7240n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.6240n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.62401.6500
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.62401.6500
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