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Since 2017, all new aws instance types have been "nitro", which is based on kvm https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtual... AWS does continue to support older instance types, however, but only legacy workloads are using them. They actually now even run the XEN based legacy instance types on nitro. https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/11/xen-on-nitro-aws-nitro-for-legacy-instances/ https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/11/xen-on-nitro-aws-n...