f2.12xlarge vs i7i.12xlarge

Instance Typef2.12xlargei7i.12xlarge
Instance FamilyFPGAStorage optimized
DetailsGenomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security

f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
2 – Generation
12xlarge – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
7 – Generation
i – Intel processor
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory512 GiB384 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
Clock Speed3.4 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAyesno
FPGA NameVirtex UltraScale+ (VU47P)
FPGA ManufacturerXilinx
FPGA Count2
FPGA Memory80 GiB
FPGA Total Memory160 GiB
Instances
Sizesf2.12xlarge, f2.48xlarge, f2.6xlargei7i.12xlarge, i7i.16xlarge, i7i.24xlarge, i7i.2xlarge, i7i.48xlarge, i7i.4xlarge, i7i.8xlarge, i7i.large, i7i.metal-24xl, i7i.metal-48xl, i7i.xlarge
Generationsi4i.12xlarge, i7i.12xlarge
Variantsi7ie.12xlarge
OpenSearchi7i.12xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage2 x 950 NVMe SSD3 x 3750 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput15000 MBps15360 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS60000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps15000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps1875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance25 GigabitUp to 28.125 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.13x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
f2.12xlarge
i7i.12xlarge
CanadaCanada (Central) (ca-central-1)4.3560n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)4.75204.7335
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HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a5.3143
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a5.4014
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a5.4305
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)4.75204.8874
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a5.4305
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a5.4305
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HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a5.4886
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a5.9417
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a5.9532
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a5.9822
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a7.2310
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)4.95004.8874
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)5.14804.9949
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)5.34724.9949
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a4.9949
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a4.9949
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a4.9949
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a5.1401
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a4.5302
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)3.96004.5302
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)3.96004.5302
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