[duskwuff]

> I expect they'd run at like, several thousand USD per device...

You're guessing about an order of magnitude too low, actually. The VU9P FPGAs Amazon is using cost between $30,000 and $55,000 each, depending on the speed grade.

Yes, this means a fully equipped F1 instance costs nearly half a million dollars. Don't count on the instances being cheap to run.

[chx]

Do you have a source? I am curious. http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/xilinx-inc/XCKU040-... this surely is not the right chip then.

[duskwuff]

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

Scroll down to "F1"; it says:

> Xilinx UltraScale+ VU9P FPGAs

The VU9P isn't available through DigiKey, but is listed by Avnet. I don't know which specific package and speed grade Amazon is using, but here's one:

https://products.avnet.com/shop/en/asia/programmable-logic/f...