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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by bonobo3000 on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:33PM (#10618355)
Would you mind explaining a little about how bare metal is different from this? Isn't a dedicated host a real physical machine?
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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by gutnor on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:45PM (#10618407)
You have a dedicated host to run VM but you don't really have access to the host OS and cannot run custom code on it.

Previously, your VM were allocated to a host as Amazon saw fit.

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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by Sanddancer on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:28PM (#10618811)
This is giving you control of the allocation on one specific VM host. So you have, for example, a box that is hosting x m4.larges that you can fill how you want. Plus you have information about the hardware, so software that's licensed per physical machine can be run on each of those instances.
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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by chrisseaton on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:43PM (#10618399)
No I think it's still virtualised isn't it? But on a machine that they guarantee only you are using?
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Re:EC2 Dedicated Hosts by benley on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:05PM (#10619082)
Yes. The key is that you can control exactly what combination of your own VMs land on each physical machine.
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