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"Years ago, AWS developed something similar in Nitro, a system of dedicated integrated circuits and specialized software that offloads some of the heavy lifting
by raincom 7y ago
"Years ago, AWS developed something similar in Nitro, a system of dedicated integrated circuits and specialized software that offloads some of the heavy lifting from host machines provisioned through Amazon's next-generation C- and M-series of EC2 instances."
"Whereas Nitro is exclusive to AWS, Pensando will be available to the wider market, allowing enterprises to create "their own customized version of the cloud systems," Chambers said."
- walrus01 7y agoGives me flashbacks to the days 20 years ago when a 32-bit/33MHz PCI interface crypto accelerator card, with dedicated ASIC, was a good way to speed up SSL page serving on your openbsd machines.
- raincom 7y agoHifn, Inc of Los Gatos, CA was one such company.
- carlsborg 7y agoFrom the docs .. AWS Nitro is 1] a family of cards that offloads and accelerates IO for functions (for VPC, EBS, Instance Storage, Security) 2] a lightweight hypervisor that presumably works well with these cards, and 3] the nitro "security chip" specifics of which are sparse.