AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of a new smaller size of Amazon EC2 F2 instances, F2.6xlarge. Amazon EC2 F2 instances are the second-generation of FPGA-powered instances, purpose built for developing and deploying reconfigurable hardware in the cloud. The new F2.6xlarge instance size has 1 FPGA, compared to the currently available F2 sizes with 4 and 8 FPGAs.

Amazon EC2 F2 instances are ideal for FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network acceleration, and more. AWS customers can use the new instance size, F2.6xlarge, for applications that are more cost-efficient or performant when running on a single FPGA. F2.6xlarge also provides a lower cost entry point to using F2 instances.

F2 instances are the first to feature an FPGA with 16 GB of high bandwidth memory (HBM). The new F2.6xlarge size features a 3rd generation AMD EPYC processor with 24 vCPUs, 256 GB of system memory, 950 GB of NVMe SSD local storage, and 12.5 Gbps of network bandwidth.

The F2.6xlarge size is now available in the US East (N. Virginia), Europe (London), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. To learn more, please visit the Amazon EC2 F2 Instances page.

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