Amazon EC2: VPS/VDS or dedicated

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Are Amazon EC2 instances VPS/VDS or dedicated servers?

asked Jul 18 '11 at 4:48

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They are virtual servers. More specifically, they are virtual servers running within the Xen hypervisor.

answered Jul 18 '11 at 4:51

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