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Ensure EC2 instances do not use tenancy in dedicated hosts without requirement

Dedicated hosts and dedicated instances should only be used when required for licensing or compliance. They incur additional costs.

Security Impact

Unnecessary dedicated tenancy increases costs without providing additional security benefits.

How to Remediate

Review instances using dedicated tenancy and migrate to default tenancy if dedicated hosts are not required.

Affected Resources

AWS::EC2::Instance

Compliance Frameworks

SOC 2

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Check Details

Check ID
aws-ec2-17
Service
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Category
Cost Optimization
Severity
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