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Amazon Web Services Metric

Cores

Catalog row in Vendor License Metrics · Cited

Unit
Core
Aliases
physical cores; per-core
Definition
License Manager: License type "The metric used to count licenses. Supported values are vCPUs , Cores , Sockets , and Instances ." Dedicated Hosts "Provides visibility of the number of sockets and physical cores".
Counting rules
Counted as the physical cores installed on the Dedicated Host (reported by the DescribeHosts API and License Manager). License Manager requires Dedicated Host tenancy when the counting type is Cores; the License affinity to host rule (1 to 180 days) is available only for Cores and Sockets. AWS FAQ: with Dedicated Hosts, EC2 provides the number of physical cores installed on the host, from which SQL Server licenses to bring are calculated.
Floors / minimums
Optional Minimum cores and Maximum cores rules per resource.
Applies to products
  • Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
  • AWS License Manager
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