AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 596

A company needs to migrate its website from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The website must be hosted on hardware that is not shared with other companies. The company wants to use its existing per-socket, per-core software licenses.

Which Amazon EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Dedicated Instance
• B. Reserved Instance
• C. Dedicated Host
• D. On-Demand Instance

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts provide physical servers fully dedicated to a single customer, allowing visibility and control over instance placement to support existing per-socket or per-core software licenses (BYOL). While Dedicated Instances also run on single-tenant hardware, they do not offer the socket/core visibility required for these specific licensing models. Reserved and On-Demand Instances run on multi-tenant hardware and do not support BYOL for per-socket/per-core licenses.