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.