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Dedicated hosts and instances

Dedicated hosts and instances - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Dedicated hosts and instances

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- Let's discuss the dedicated type of instance purchasing option in Amazon EC2. It is called 'dedicated' because the underlying hardware is dedicated or allocated to a single customer only, and it's not shared with any other AWS customer. This can be in the form of dedicated instance or a dedicated host. Each EC2 instance that you launch into a VPC has a particular tenancy attribute. You can set this attribute to run your EC2 instance on a shared hardware, a dedicated single-tenant hardware or an isolated server that you can control. By default, your spot, on-demand, and reserved instances are running on the hardware that you share with other AWS customers. Running your instance in a dedicated single-tenant hardware is called a dedicated instance, while running it on a isolated server is called a dedicated host. An Amazon EC2 dedicated host is a physical server that is fully dedicated for your own use. This means…

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