It's based on KVM: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#compute-optimized https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#compute-optimized (sorry for crappy link, can't figure o

It's based on KVM: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#compute-optimized https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#compute-optimized (sorry for crappy link, can't figure out how to link directly to the appropriate question. Search for "What is the underlying hypervisor on C5 instances" question).