h1.8xlarge vs f2.6xlarge

Instance Typeh1.8xlargef2.6xlarge
Instance FamilyStorage optimizedFPGA
DetailsAmazon EMR workloads, distributed file systems (HDFS, MapR-FS), network file systems, log/data processing apps (like Apache Kafka), and big data clusters.

h – HDD / hard disk throughput optimized
1 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
Genomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security

f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
2 – Generation
6xlarge – Size
vCPUs3224
Memory128 GiB256 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.4 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnoyes
FPGA NameVirtex UltraScale+ (VU47P)
FPGA ManufacturerXilinx
FPGA Count1
FPGA Memory80 GiB
FPGA Total Memory80 GiB
Instances
Sizesh1.16xlarge, h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlargef2.12xlarge, f2.48xlarge, f2.6xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage4 x 2000 HDD1 x 950 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughput7000 MBps7500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput875 Mbps937.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS30000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7000 Mbps7500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput875 Mbps937.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance10 Gigabit12.5 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.21x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
h1.8xlarge
f2.6xlarge
CanadaCanada (Central) (ca-central-1)n/a2.1780
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.07602.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a2.3760
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a2.4750
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a2.5740
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a2.6736
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)1.8720n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.87201.9800
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.87201.9800
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