Working with Amazon Cloud Map service instances - Amazon Cloud Map
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Working with Amazon Cloud Map service instances

A service instance contains information about how to locate a resource, such as a web server, for an application. After you register instances, you locate them by using DNS queries or the Amazon Cloud Map DiscoverInstances API action.