Launch Dedicated Instances into a VPC with default tenancy - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Launch Dedicated Instances into a VPC with default tenancy

When you create a VPC, you have the option of specifying its instance tenancy. If you launch an instance into a VPC that has an instance tenancy of dedicated, the instance will always run as a Dedicated Instance on hardware that's dedicated for your use.

For more information about creating a VPC and choosing the tenancy options, see Create a VPC in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

You can launch a Dedicated Instance using the Amazon EC2 launch instance wizard.

Console
To launch a Dedicated Instance into a default tenancy VPC using the console

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. Choose Launch Instance.

  3. On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) page, select an AMI and choose Select.

  4. On the Choose an Instance Type page, select the instance type and choose Next: Configure Instance Details.

    Note

    Ensure that you choose an instance type that's supported as a Dedicated Instance. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.

  5. On the Configure Instance Details page, select a VPC and subnet. For Tenancy, choose Dedicated - Run a dedicated instance, and then choose Next: Add Storage.

  6. Continue as prompted by the wizard. When you've finished reviewing your options on the Review Instance Launch page, choose Launch to choose a key pair and launch the Dedicated Instance.

Command line
To set the tenancy option for an instance during launch using the command line

For more information about launching an instance with a tenancy of host, see Launch Amazon EC2 instances on an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host.