f2.6xlarge vs r4.8xlarge

Instance Typef2.6xlarger4.8xlarge
Instance FamilyFPGAMemory 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
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
4 – 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, f2.6xlarger4.16xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.large, r4.xlarge
Generationsr3.8xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r6i.8xlarge, r7i.8xlarge, r8i.8xlarge
RDSdb.r4.8xlarge
DocumentDBdb.r4.8xlarge
OpenSearchr4.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r4.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnono
EC2 Compute Units97
Instance Storage1 x 950 NVMe SSDEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput7500 MBps6000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps7000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps875 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS37500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance30000 IOPS37500 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 Diff1.00x1.09x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
f2.6xlarge
r4.8xlarge
CanadaCanada (Central) (ca-central-1)2.1780n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.37602.1920
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a2.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a2.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a2.5600
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a2.5608
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a4.4800
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.37602.3360
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.47502.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.57402.3712
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.67362.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a2.4960
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a2.5536
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a2.5536
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a2.5600
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a2.1280
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.98002.1280
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)1.98002.1280
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