Coming Soon: EC2 Dedicated Hosts

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It's interesting that AWS markets this as a trick to reduce enterprise software license costs.

I would guess that the more common use case will be to get more predictable performance by preventing "noisy-neighbor" issues.

Will the next step be AWS supporting non-virtualized instances?

I found this odd as well, especially given how competing services (e.g. SoftLayer) so often cite the performance of dedicated servers as their competitive advantage over AWS.

It's less a trick, than a sad reality for certain types of software. I'm sure there are others, but for Oracle, for example, currently they require you to have a perpetual license for every core that's running inside your Amazon VM, which makes the pricing crazy.

I'm sure Oracle said, "Hey, either price it like this, or you can price it based on the underlying hardware, which is how we do it with VMware".

So at least now it might be feasible for enterprises to run some of these traditionally licensed software packages without either an all you can eat license or blatantly violating the rules.

This sounds like a fully-baked and useful version of Dedicated Instances (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/dedica...).

What next, actual, physical, bare metal servers for better performance? I am actually doing this already for my test instances - the server running in our office is running Linux and docker with no intermediate vm layer.

This falls into the "announcement of an announcement" category that is generally off-topic for HN. There's no harm in waiting for the actual release.

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