Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud

[taylorbuley]

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/

[sciurus]

Discussion when they were announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072432

[vvanders]

One thing that's really missing from that landing page is any sort of meaningful FPGA specs(LUTs, DSP slices, block RAM, etc).

Still pretty cool to see FPGAs now showing up in cloud managed hardware.

[someguy12 → vvanders]

They mention that the F1 instance is using Xilinx's UltraScale+ FPGAs and that they have approx. 6800 DSP slices.

You can see that they must be targeting the VU9P from the product selection guide (pdf) here:

http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides...

From the guide:

  VU9P:
    6840 DSP slices,
    2.3M flip-flops,
    1.1M LUTs
    36Mb distributed RAM
    76Mb block RAM
    270Mb ultra RAM

Additional documentation is linked on the last page of the selector guide.

Note that these specs are per FPGA. An F1 instance comes with up to 8 of these devices.

[mathnode]

If I knew anything about VHDL, I would create a cloud Amiga!