Allocate an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host on AWS Outposts - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Allocate an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host on AWS Outposts

You allocate and use Dedicated Hosts on Outposts in the same way that would with Dedicated Hosts in an AWS Region.

Prerequisites

Create a subnet on the Outpost. For more information, see Create a subnet in the AWS Outposts User Guide.

To allocate a Dedicated Host on an Outpost, use one of the following methods:

AWS Outposts console

  1. Open the AWS Outposts console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/outposts/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Outposts. Select the Outpost and then choose Actions, Allocate Dedicated Host.

  3. Configure the Dedicated Host as needed. For more information, see Allocate an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host for use in your account.

    Note

    Availability Zone and Outpost ARN should be pre-populated with the Availability Zone and ARN of the selected Outpost.

  4. Choose Allocate.

Amazon EC2 console

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dedicated Hosts, and then choose Allocate Dedicated Host.

  3. For Availability Zone, select the Availability Zone associated with the Outpost.

  4. For Outpost ARN, enter the ARN of the Outpost.

  5. To target specific hardware assets on the Outpost, for Target specific hardware assets on Outpost, select Enable. For each hardware asset to target, choose Add asset ID, and then enter the ID of the hardware asset.

    Note

    The value that you specify for Quantity must be equal to the number of asset IDs that you specify. For example, if you specify 3 asset IDs, then Quantity must also be 3.

  6. Configure the remaining Dedicated Host settings as needed. For more information, see Allocate an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host for use in your account.

  7. Choose Allocate.

AWS CLI

Use the allocate-hosts AWS CLI command. For --availability-zone, specify the Availability Zone associated with the Outpost. For --outpost-arn, specify the ARN of the Outpost. Optionally, for --asset-ids, specify the IDs of the Outpost hardware assets to target.

aws ec2 allocate-hosts --availability-zone "us-east-1a" --outpost-arn "arn:aws:outposts:us-east-1a:111122223333:outpost/op-4fe3dc21baEXAMPLE" --asset-ids asset_id --instance-family "m5" --auto-placement "off" --quantity 1
To launch an instance onto a Dedicated Host on an Outpost

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dedicated Hosts. Select the Dedicated Host that you allocated in the previous step and choose Actions, Launch instance onto host.

  3. Configure the instance as needed and then launch the instance. For more information, see Launch Amazon EC2 instances on an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host.