f1.2xlarge vs x2iedn.2xlarge

Instance Typef1.2xlargex2iedn.2xlarge
Instance FamilyFPGAMemory optimized
DetailsGenomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security

f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
In-memory databases (like SAP HANA), big data engines (such as Apache Spark, Presto), high-performance computing (HPC), and memory-heavy enterprise apps.

x – Extreme RAM / memory intensive
2 – Generation
i – Intel processor
e – Extra storage or memory
d – Instance store volume
n – Network and EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory122 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturen/ax86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
Clock Speed3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core02
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesf1.16xlarge, f1.2xlarge, f1.4xlargex2iedn.16xlarge, x2iedn.24xlarge, x2iedn.2xlarge, x2iedn.32xlarge, x2iedn.4xlarge, x2iedn.8xlarge, x2iedn.metal, x2iedn.xlarge
Variantsx2gd.2xlarge, x2iezn.2xlarge
RDSdb.x2iedn.2xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units31
Instance Storage1 x 470 NVMe SSD1 x 237 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefault
Encryptionsupported
NVMerequired
Dedicated Throughput1700 MBpsup to 20000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance16250 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance65000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth20000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput2500 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces4
Max Cards1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface15
IPv6 Supportnoyes
ENA Supportrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.18x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
f1.2xlarge
x2iedn.2xlarge
EuropeEurope (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)1.7340n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.81501.7203
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.1008
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.1008
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.1675
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.1759
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.1759
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.3343
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.3810
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.90601.7203
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a2.4176
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a2.4178
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a2.5677
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.2513
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.98001.8340
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.98101.9014
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.0008
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.1001
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a1.6673
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.65001.6673
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.65001.6673
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