i4i.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge

Instance Typei4i.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
4 – Generation
i – Intel processor
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
Memory64 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesi4i.12xlarge, i4i.16xlarge, i4i.24xlarge, i4i.2xlarge, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.4xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i4i.large, i4i.metal, i4i.xlargef1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
Generationsi4i.2xlarge, i7i.2xlarge
Variantsi4g.2xlarge
OpenSearchi4i.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 1875 NVMe SSD1 x 470 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBps1700 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.28x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
i4i.2xlarge
f1.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)n/a1.7340
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.71701.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.7790n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.7790n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.7950n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.7960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.7960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.7960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.8050n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.8050n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.8050n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.72101.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.8180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.8230n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.8230n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.8230n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.8230n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.8270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.8270n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.8320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.8320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.8640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.72501.9800
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.9000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.9020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.9060n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)1.0960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.74101.9810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.7410n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.7570n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.7570n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.6860n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.68601.6500
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.68601.6500
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