Amazon EC2 Supports Nested Virtualization - New U7i High Memory Instances
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Organizations can now leverage nested virtualization to improve workload isolation, testing, and development environments, potentially reducing operational costs and increasing agility.
AI Impact Summary
Amazon EC2 now supports nested virtualization, offering a significant capability expansion for cloud computing environments. This allows users to run virtual machines within virtual machines, providing greater flexibility and control over their infrastructure. This is particularly relevant for organizations needing to isolate workloads or test new environments without impacting their primary systems, and it unlocks new use cases for containerization and other virtualization technologies. This release introduces the U7i-8TB and U7i-12TB instances, which are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high