Overview
While most cloud resources are multi-tenant (sharing physical hardware), dedicated infrastructure (e.g., AWS Dedicated Hosts, Azure Dedicated Host) ensures that your virtual machines run on hardware that is not shared with any other customer.
Key Benefits
- Compliance: Meets strict regulatory requirements that forbid sharing hardware.
- Licensing: Allows you to use existing per-socket or per-core software licenses (BYOL).
- Performance: Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect entirely.
- Visibility: Provides more visibility and control over the placement of instances on physical servers.
Use Cases
- Highly regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government).
- Applications with extreme performance requirements.
- Legacy software with restrictive licensing models.