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I remember Amazon hiring a lot of systems research people in 05-06. They were very keen on Xen, judging by the people they were hiring. I wonder if they still u
by rmk 6y ago
I remember Amazon hiring a lot of systems research people in 05-06. They were very keen on Xen, judging by the people they were hiring. I wonder if they still use Xen post their Citrix acquisition.
- jen20 6y agoEC2 was famously built on top of Xen, but as of 2017, new instance types are based on Nitro, which uses parts of KVM instead. Brendan Gregg wrote up a good history of this [1] (there may be an updated version somewhere, too). [1]: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali...
- rmk 6y agoThat picture alone is a great lesson in how to convey a crap ton of information in a small amount of space. It was a great read, thank you!