Dedicated instance versus dedicated host – which should you choose?

This is always a confusing topic, but let's first learn about dedicated instances with reference to an on-demand context, which most of us know about. On-demand is the preferred choice for most of us as it's cost-effective. When you spin up your EC2 instance, if you don't choose any option, by default it picks on-demand, which means your instance can be launched in any hypervisor running in AWS.

This might be an issue for some customers who want a hypervisor (a hypervisor is a piece of software that creates and runs virtual machines (VMs)) dedicated to their AWS account. There can be many reasons for that, but one common concern is security. You want the hypervisor you are using to only run the AWS instances of your company. This is where a dedicated instance comes into the picture. When you pick the dedicated instance option, hardware will be dedicated to your account. AWS now provides you...