r5b.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge

Instance Typer5b.2xlargef1.2xlarge
Instance FamilyMemory optimizedFPGA
DetailsHigh-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
5 – Generation
b – EBS optimized
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 Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core20
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesr5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlargef1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
Generationsr5b.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge
Variantsr5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
RDSdb.r5b.2xlarge, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 470 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 128000 MBps1700 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance21667 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance43333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 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 Diff1.00x2.63x

Regional Prices

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Per Hour
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Geography
Region
r5b.2xlarge
f1.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)n/a1.7340
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.63181.8150
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.7240n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.9480n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.65201.9060
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.66801.9800
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.70001.9810
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.7000n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.7120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.7120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.7120n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.7240n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.5960n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.59601.6500
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.59601.6500
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