r3.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge
| r3.2xlarge | f1.2xlarge |
| Memory optimized | FPGA |
| Obsolete. 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 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 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 61 GiB | 122 GiB |
| x86_64 | n/a |
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.5 GHz | |
| 2 | 0 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| r3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge, r3.large, r3.xlarge | f1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge |
| r3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge | |
| db.r3.2xlarge | |
| r3.2xlarge.search | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 26 | 31 |
| 1 x 160 SSD | 1 x 470 NVMe SSD |
| supported | |
| supported | |
| unsupported | |
| 1700 MBps | |
| 1000 Mbps | |
| 125 Mbps | |
| 8000 IOPS | |
| 8000 IOPS | |
| 1000 Mbps | |
| 125 Mbps | |
| High | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | |
| 1 | |
| 15 | |
| 15 | |
| yes | no |
| unsupported | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 2.27x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | r3.2xlarge | f1.2xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1) | n/a | 1.7340 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.7410 | 1.8150 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 1.3990 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.7410 | 1.9060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.7580 | 1.9800 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.7980 | 1.9810 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.7980 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.7980 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.7980 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.7980 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.8000 | n/a |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.6640 | n/a |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.6650 | 1.6500 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | 0.6650 | 1.6500 |
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