AWS Nitro System

wikipedia:AWS Nitro (2017)

• https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
• Nitro Cards
• Nitro hypervisor

• AWS Nitro Enclaves

Nitro is lightweight. It is based on the KVM core kernel module, but does not use many of the other KVM components, such as QEMU. There is also no domO or IDD involved in the I/O path. Direct metal access.

Related

• M5
• eksctl create cluster
• karpenter.k8s.aws/instance-hypervisor

Activities

• Read https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-m5-instances/

See also

• AWS Nitro System, AWS Nitro Enclaves, nitro-cli

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-m5-instances/

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html