trn1.2xlarge vs f1.2xlarge

Accelerators
Instance Type	trn1.2xlarge	f1.2xlarge
Instance Family	Machine Learning ASIC	FPGA
Details	Machine Learning (ML) training trn – AWS Trainium 1 – 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
vCPUs	8	8
Memory	32 GiB	122 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	n/a
Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed	3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core	2	0
GPU	no	no
GPUs	1
Inference Accelerator	no	no
Accelerator Memory	32 GiB
FPGA	no	no
Instances
Sizes	trn1.2xlarge, trn1.32xlarge	f1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlarge
SageMaker	ml.trn1.2xlarge
Free Tier	no	no
Burstable	no	no
Hibernation	no	no
EC2 Compute Units		31
Instance Storage	1 x 475 NVMe SSD	1 x 470 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimized	default
Encryption	supported
NVMe	required
Dedicated Throughput	up to 20480 MBps	1700 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth	5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput	625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance	16250 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance	65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth	20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput	2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance	12500 Megabit	Up to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networking	yes	yes
Max Interfaces	4
Max Cards	1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface	15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface	15
IPv6 Support	yes	no
ENA Support	required
EFA Support	no	no
Encryption in Transit Support	yes	no
ENA SRD Support	no	no
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.35x

Regional Prices

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Shared Tenancy

On Demand

Geography	Region	trn1.2xlarge	f1.2xlarge
Europe	Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)	n/a	1.7340
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	1.8150
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	1.9060
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	1.9800
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	n/a	1.9810
US	US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)	1.3438	n/a
US	US East (Virginia) (us-east-1)	1.3438	1.6500
US	US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)	1.3438	1.6500

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