r4.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge

Instance Typer4.2xlargef1.2xlarge
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
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
Sizesr4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlargef1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
Generationsr3.2xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r6i.2xlarge, r7i.2xlarge, r8i.2xlarge
RDSdb.r4.2xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.2xlarge
OpenSearchr4.2xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units3131
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 470 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMeunsupported
Dedicated Throughput1600 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 Diff1.00x2.87x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
r4.2xlarge
f1.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)n/a1.7340
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.54801.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.6400n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.6402n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.1200n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.58401.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.59281.9800
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.59281.9810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.6240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.6384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.6384n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.6400n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.5320n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.53201.6500
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.53201.6500
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