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Re:Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud by sciurus on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:32PM (#13980911)
Discussion when they were announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072432
Re:Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud by vvanders on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:53PM (#13981067)
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.

Re:Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud by someguy12 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:49PM (#13989914)
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.

Re:Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud by mathnode on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:59PM (#13981117)
If I knew anything about VHDL, I would create a cloud Amiga!