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EC2 Nested Virtualization

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As I understand, nested virtualization is currently only available on Metal EC2 instances.

I see in this question that Graviton 2 uses the ARMv8.2 architecture, which does not have native support for nested virtualization, but Graviton 3 is based on ARMv8.4 that should support this:

Will I be able to use nested virtualization on EC2 instances with Graviton 3 that are not metal?

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rePost-User-2202856
asked 5 months ago167 views
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Currently EC2 VMs do not support nested virtualization for any architecture. To run your own hypervisor on EC2, you have to use *.metal instances. From there you could do nested virtualization, but at that point there's no need as you have the entire machine to work with.

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/amazon-ec2-c7g-metal-instances-available/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/dotnet/powering-net-8-with-aws-graviton3-benchmarks/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/03/amazon-emr-amazon-ec2-c7g-graviton3-instances/

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