Related: EC2

Dedicated Host – you are dedicated with whole physical server (host)

  • Most useful for software with socket/core licensing.
  • Pay only for the host: On-demand – Reserved Options available.
  • Specific size and family, with Nitro architecture – different sizes
  • You cant use Windows, RHEL, SUSE Linux - AMIs
  • Amazon RDS Instances are not supported
  • Placement groups are not supported
  • Hosts can be shared within ORG (AWS RAM)
    Dedicated Instances – when you don’t need to share host’s hardware, but also, don’t control it. Extra charges.