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No bare metal: AWS adds nested virtualisation on EC2

Want K8s in a VM in a VM on virtual EC2? That's finally turned on across AWS regions, with VMware possibilities beckoning.

Phillip de Wet
By  Phillip de Wet
2 min read
No bare metal: AWS adds nested virtualisation on EC2
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Amazon on Monday confirmed a change already spotted in the wild: it now offers nested virtualisation on some EC2 instances.

Until recently, workloads that rely on hardware virtualisation, such as WSL2 and Docker Desktop, effectively required EC2 bare-metal instances on AWS. The company now exposes CPU virtualisation extensions to guest VMs, allowing nested virtualisation on standard C8i, M8i and R8i instances.

It may also offer a newly viable path out of on-prem VMware.

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  • Phillip de Wet

    Phillip de Wet

    Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

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