f2.6xlarge vs i3.8xlarge

Instance Typef2.6xlargei3.8xlarge
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
6xlarge – 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
3 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs2432
Memory256 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed3.4 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
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, f2.6xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationsi2.8xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i4i.8xlarge, i7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchi3.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage1 x 950 NVMe SSD4 x 1900 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughput7500 MBps7000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS32500 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth7500 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput937.5 Mbps875 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12.5 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.26x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
f2.6xlarge
i3.8xlarge
CanadaCanada (Central) (ca-central-1)2.1780n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.37602.6080
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.8960
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a2.9280
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a2.9760
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a2.9920
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.37602.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a3.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a3.0080
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a3.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a3.0270
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a3.2740
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a3.2800
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a3.2960
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a3.9840
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.47502.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.57402.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.67362.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.8320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.8900
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.8960
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.4960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.98002.4960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.98002.4960
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