Amazon’s next plan for the cloud: Leave noisy neighbors in the past.
Late yesterday Amazon unveiled EC2 Dedicated Hosts, which ensures that EC2 instances are mapped to a specific underlying physical host. Amazon claims Dedicated Hosts eases governance, compliance, and software licensing, but as a side benefit, it allows enterprise cloud customers to ensure their workloads aren’t shared with other workloads they can’t control. In other words, it’s a potential solution to the cloud’s “noisy neighbor” problem.
Your machine, your way
Amazon says EC2 Dedicated Hosts lets customers provision multiple instances of a certain type — M3, M4, C3, C4, G2, R3, D2, and I2 instances are supported — and bring them together on a single physical host in a given availability zone. Details on the dedicated host — how many sockets and how many cores — are provided to the administrator.
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