m5a.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge

Instance Typem5a.2xlargef1.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeFPGA
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
5 – Generation
a – AMD 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
Memory32 GiB122 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64n/a
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm5a.12xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5a.large, m5a.xlargef1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
Generationsm5a.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m7a.2xlarge, m8a.2xlarge
Variantsm5.2xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 470 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 2120 MBps1700 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1580 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput197.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance8333 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance16000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2880 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput360 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 Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.54x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m5a.2xlarge
f1.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.2220n/a
EuropeEurope (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)n/a1.7340
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.34401.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.4320n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.4480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.5520n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.38401.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.38401.9800
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.40001.9810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.4040n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.4160n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.4240n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.3440n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.34401.6500
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a1.6500
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