Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances

Why Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances?

Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances that run in a VPC on hardware that's dedicated to a single customer. Your Dedicated instances are physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to other AWS accounts. Dedicated instances may share hardware with other instances from the same AWS account that are not Dedicated instances. Pay for Dedicated Instances On-Demand, save up to 70% by purchasing Reserved Instances, or save up to 90% by purchasing Spot Instances.

You can also use Dedicated Hosts to launch Amazon EC2 instances on physical servers that are dedicated for your use. Dedicated Hosts give you additional visibility and control over how instances are placed on a physical server, and you can reliably use the same physical server over time. As a result, Dedicated Hosts enable you to use your existing server-bound software licenses like Windows Server and address corporate compliance and regulatory requirements. Visit this page to compare Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts.

 

                                 

Pricing

Dedicated On-Demand instances | Dedicated Spot instances

Pay only for what you use with no long-term commitments. Dedicated Instance pricing has two components: (1) an hourly per instance usage fee and (2) a dedicated per region fee (note that you pay this once per hour regardless of how many Dedicated Instances you're running).

Dedicated per region fee

€1.71627 per hour - An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a region.

Dedicated On-Demand instances

On-Demand instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments.

Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance type. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours.

Dedicated Spot instances

Spot instances allow you to bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and pay by the hour. Dedicated Spot instances have the same price as standard Spot instances. Click here to learn more about Spot Instances.

T3 Unlimited Mode pricing

For T3 instances in Unlimited mode, CPU Credits are charged at:

  • €0.0429 per vCPU-Hour for Linux, RHEL and SLES, and
  • €0.0824 per vCPU-Hour for Windows and Windows with SQL Web

See Unlimited Mode documentation for details on when CPU Credits are charged.

Getting started

To get started using Dedicated Instances within an Amazon VPC, perform the following steps:

  1. Open and log into the AWS Management Console.
  2. Create an Amazon VPC if you do not already have one on the Amazon VPC tab.
  3. Choose "Launch Instance".
  4. Select "Launch Instances Into Your Virtual Private Cloud".
  5. In the "Request Instances Wizard", modify the instance tenancy from "Default" to "Dedicated".
  6. Start using your instance with the knowledge it will not share hardware with instances launched by other customers.

The AWS Management Console is an easy tool to start and manage your instances. If you are looking for more details on launching an instance, a quick tutorial on how to use Amazon EC2 with the AWS Management Console can be found here.

Service terms

The complete AWS Service Terms can be found here.