AWS Single Tenant Hardware

Question

I want my instance to run on a single-tenant hardware, what value would be appropriate to be set to the instance’s tenancy attribute?

Answer 1

The Instance tenancy attribute should be set to Dedicated Instance. Most other values would be inappropriate.

Answer 2

1. Having one customer confined to one instance gives you no failover. If the instance fails, the application is down until you can restart or relaunch the instance.

2. You should probably think about building clusters than can host several customers, 2-4 instances each, with failover and load balancing. (Maybe also use Multi-AZ RDS to host mysql)

3. Customer specific configuration needs to get out of JBoss and into your application somehow, I dont know the details of the platform so I cannot provide specifics.