Modify the auto-placement setting for an existing Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Modify the auto-placement setting for an existing Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host

You can modify the auto-placement settings of a Dedicated Host after you have allocated it to your Amazon account, using one of the following methods.

Console
To modify the auto-placement of a Dedicated Host

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dedicated Hosts.

  3. Select a host and choose Actions, Modify host.

  4. For Instance auto-placement, choose Enable to enable auto-placement, or clear Enable to disable auto-placement. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host auto-placement and host affinity.

  5. Choose Save.

Amazon CLI
To modify the auto-placement of a Dedicated Host

Use the modify-hosts Amazon CLI command. The following example enables auto-placement for the specified Dedicated Host.

aws ec2 modify-hosts --auto-placement on --host-ids h-012a3456b7890cdef
PowerShell
To modify the auto-placement of a Dedicated Host

Use the Edit-EC2Host Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell command. The following example enables auto-placement for the specified Dedicated Host.

PS C:\> Edit-EC2Host --AutoPlacement 1 --HostId h-012a3456b7890cdef