f2.6xlarge vs hpc7a.12xlarge

Instance Typef2.6xlargehpc7a.12xlarge
Instance FamilyFPGACompute optimized
DetailsGenomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data search and analysis, and security

f – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
2 – Generation
6xlarge – Size
High-performance computing (HPC), computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, and weather modeling.

hpc – High performance computing (HPC) / high disk throughput
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs2424
Memory256 GiB768 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
Clock Speed3.4 GHz3.7 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAyesno
FPGA NameVirtex UltraScale+ (VU47P)
FPGA ManufacturerXilinx
FPGA Count1
FPGA Memory80 GiB
FPGA Total Memory80 GiB
Instances
Sizesf2.12xlarge, f2.48xlarge, f2.6xlargehpc7a.12xlarge, hpc7a.24xlarge, hpc7a.48xlarge, hpc7a.96xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
Instance Storage1 x 950 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput7500 MBps87 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps87 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps10.875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS11000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7500 Mbps2085 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput937.5 Mbps260.625 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12.5 Gigabit300 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces84
Max Cards12
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3050
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnoyes
EFA Max Interfaces2
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.51x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
f2.6xlarge
hpc7a.12xlarge
CanadaCanada (Central) (ca-central-1)2.1780n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a7.7252
EuropeEurope (Stockholm) (eu-north-1)n/a7.7252
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.37608.5553
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.37608.6674
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.47509.0793
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.5740n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.6736n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a7.2000
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.9800n/a
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.9800n/a
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