The c5, m5, t3, c5d, m5d, z1d, r5, r5d, m5a, r5a, a1, c5n, p3dn instance familie... | Hacker News

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blasdel on Nov 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS Firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for ser...

The c5, m5, t3, c5d, m5d, z1d, r5, r5d, m5a, r5a, a1, c5n, p3dn instance families all use the Nitro Hypervisor, which is based on Linux KVM code but offloading a lot of functionality to the Nitro System instead of using the normative QEMU setup.

Firecracker runs as a process in a customer-provided Linux 4.14 or newer kernel using the upstream KVM apis, that can be on an EC2 Metal Instance or on your own hardware.

__bjoernd on Nov 27, 2018 [–]

How could you miss z1? ;)

blasdel on Nov 27, 2018 | [–]

Thanks for the reminder, ironically I put a lot of work into launching that platform!

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