AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro
Brendan Gregg
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. This was initially used via the ixgbe driver for speeds up to 10 Gbps, then the ena driver for speeds up to 25 Gbps. The first was c3.
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