EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by jwrigh13 on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:34PM (#10617842)

Now how long will it take for Amazon to release a dedicated host marketplace where you can sell unused space on your dedicated hosts?

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by andrewguenther on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:38PM (#10618140)

Ah yes, we run all of our services on dedicated NSA machines we leased from AWS!

This would be a security and privacy nightmare.

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by nandhp on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:10PM (#10618734)

This isn't too far-fetched -- there's already a marketplace for buying and selling used reserved instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by dandroid1 on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:37PM (#10617855)

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of obtaining a dedicated host?

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by toomuchtodo on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:40PM (#10617879)

Technically, its the equivalent of a leaseback. It may make sense depending on the profitability of the arbitrage you're targeting.

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by nandhp on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:13PM (#10618743)

Not if it's primarily to accommodate bring-your-own-license for per-machine-licensed software. Needing to have control over what machine runs your instances doesn't mean you can't allow other people to run their instances on "your" hardware.

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