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View shared Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts in your AWS account

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View shared Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts in your AWS account - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

You can view Dedicated Host that you are sharing with other accounts, and Dedicated Hosts that are shared with you. If you own the Dedicated Host, you can see all of the instances running on the host, including instances launched by consumers. If the Dedicated Host is shared with you, you can see only the instances that you launched onto the shared host, and not those launched by other consumers.

Owners and consumers can identify shared Dedicated Hosts using one of the following methods.

Amazon EC2 console
To identify a shared Dedicated Host using the Amazon EC2 console
  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dedicated Hosts. The screen lists Dedicated Hosts that you own and Dedicated Hosts that are shared with you. The Owner column shows the AWS account ID of the Dedicated Host owner. To view the instances running on the hosts, select the Instances tab.

Command line
To identify a shared Dedicated Host using the AWS CLI

Use the describe-hosts command. The command returns the Dedicated Hosts that you own and Dedicated Hosts that are shared with you.

To identify a shared Dedicated Host using the Amazon EC2 console
  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dedicated Hosts. The screen lists Dedicated Hosts that you own and Dedicated Hosts that are shared with you. The Owner column shows the AWS account ID of the Dedicated Host owner. To view the instances running on the hosts, select the Instances tab.

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