How to open the bios page of an ec2 instance

If you are looking to run a hypervisor on an EC2 instance, and then run VM guests inside the EC2 instance then generally that's not possible.

Some bare metal instances can host a VM running Hyper-V on EC2, see more information here https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/running-hyper-v-on-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances/

There is also a service offering VMware on AWS, which I'll mention for completeness but I don't think is what you're looking for https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

Hii

I'd be glad to help, but there's an important point to clarify regarding EC2 instances and BIOS access.

EC2 Instances and BIOS:

EC2 instances are themselves virtual machines (VMs) running on Amazon's infrastructure. They don't have a physical BIOS that you can directly access. Enabling Hardware Virtualization on EC2:

Since you're already in a virtualized environment, enabling hardware virtualization within the EC2 instance's BIOS wouldn't be applicable. This functionality is managed by the underlying hardware on which AWS runs EC2 instances.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/how-dedicated-hosts-work.html

As Garre has mentioned in his answer, an EC2 instance is already virtualized, so you generally cannot run another hypervisor in one.

If your applications needs to have access to Intel VT or AMD-V extensions, then you have the option in AWS to use a bare-metal instance type. Bare metal instance types eliminate virtualization overhead and support workloads that require full access to host hardware. Bare metal instances are designed to be suitable for the following use-cases:

• Workloads that require access to low-level hardware features (for example, Intel VT) that are not available or fully supported in virtualized environments
• Applications that require a non-virtualized environment for licensing or support

You can find a list of all the bare-metal instance types in a given EC2 Region by executing the following AWS CLI command, just edit for the region you are interested in:

% aws ec2 describe-instance-types --filters Name=bare-metal,Values=true --query 'InstanceTypes[*].InstanceType' --region eu-west-1 
[
    "r6a.metal",
    "c6gd.metal",
    "m7i.metal-24xl",
    "r6in.metal",
    "x2gd.metal",
    "m5d.metal",
    "m6g.metal",
    "c7a.metal-48xl",
    "m6a.metal",
    "r7i.metal-48xl",
    "g4dn.metal",
    "r7iz.metal-16xl",
    "m6gd.metal",
    "mac2.metal",
    "x2iedn.metal",
    "r6gd.metal",
    "r7g.metal",
    "m5.metal",
    "i4i.metal",
    "c7i.metal-24xl",
    "mac1.metal",
    "r5b.metal",
    "m6in.metal",
    "m7gd.metal",
    "r7i.metal-24xl",
    "c7gn.metal",
    "m6i.metal",
    "r5.metal",
    "r5dn.metal",
    "m5zn.metal",
    "x2idn.metal",
    "r7gd.metal",
    "c6id.metal",
    "c7i.metal-48xl",
    "m6id.metal",
    "c7g.metal",
    "c5.metal",
    "c6a.metal",
    "a1.metal",
    "r7a.metal-48xl",
    "m5dn.metal",
    "z1d.metal",
    "m7g.metal",
    "m6idn.metal",
    "c7gd.metal",
    "c5d.metal",
    "r6idn.metal",
    "x2iezn.metal",
    "r6i.metal",
    "r5d.metal",
    "c5n.metal",
    "r6id.metal",
    "c6i.metal",
    "m7a.metal-48xl",
    "i3.metal",
    "r7iz.metal-32xl",
    "r6g.metal",
    "r5n.metal",
    "m7i.metal-48xl",
    "i3en.metal",
    "c6in.metal",
    "c6g.metal"
]