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Can anyone give me the advantages of choosing an EC2 dedicated host over going with a true dedicated server?

• MBCook 11y ago
  All the rest of your infrastructure is in AWS and you want the high interconnect speeds.
  • wmf 11y ago
    This shouldn't be any faster than normal EC2. (Edit: I may have misunderstood the comment. This will certainly have a faster interconnect to EC2 compared to a non-EC2 dedicated server.)
    • nickodell 11y ago
      Higher relative to getting a dedicated server from a different provider.
    • jonknee 11y ago
      No, but if you need a dedicated server in addition to other EC2 hosts it will certainly be faster to be in a AWS data center.
  • zaroth 11y ago
    If it was just about network speed, it would be cheaper to get the direct 10G cross-connection to Amazon's network than to pay the premium for the dedicated hardware.
• idlewords 11y ago
  You want decent performance but your budgeting process only allows you to use AWS.
• api 11y ago
  It's called Amazon. Other cloud services and bare metal hosts are not called Amazon.
• paulannesley 11y ago
  jeffbarr from Amazon in another thread: > Many of our customers have asked for this feature so that they can run software that is licensed for a particular piece of actual hardware. So it's more aimed at working with/around archaic licensing schemes, rather than technical advantages.
  • 20years 11y ago
    Thank you! This answer makes total sense.