Dedicated Hosts
Dedicated Hosts are a cloud computing service that provides physical servers dedicated to a single customer, offering isolation and control over the underlying hardware. They allow users to run instances on a physical server that is not shared with other customers, ensuring compliance with licensing requirements and providing visibility into socket and core configurations. This service is commonly offered by cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to meet specific regulatory, security, or performance needs.
Developers should use Dedicated Hosts when they need to meet strict compliance or licensing requirements, such as for software that requires per-socket or per-core licensing models, or when running applications that demand high levels of security and isolation from other tenants. It is also useful for workloads with specific hardware dependencies, like certain legacy applications or performance-sensitive tasks that benefit from dedicated resources without the overhead of virtualization.