Configuring snitches for cloud providers

Configure a cloud provider snitch that corresponds to the provider.

Configuring the Amazon EC2 single-region snitch

Use the Ec2Snitch snitch for Amazon EC2 deployments where the DataStax Enterprise (DSE) cluster is in a single region.

Configuring Amazon EC2 multi-region snitch

Use the Ec2MultiRegionSnitch snitch for Amazon EC2 deployments where the DSE cluster spans multiple regions.

Configuring the Google Cloud Platform snitch

Use the GoogleCloudSnitch snitch for DSE deployments on Google Cloud Platform across one or more regions.

Configuring the Apache CloudStack snitch

Use the CloudstackSnitch snitch for Apache CloudStack environments.

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