> Nitro. AWS has essentially eliminated the performance overhead of virtualization with Nitro, and years later GCP still has no equivalent FYI, per https://clo

> Nitro. AWS has essentially eliminated the performance overhead of virtualization with Nitro, and years later GCP still has no equivalent FYI, per https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-c3-machines-with-googles-custom-intel-ipu https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-c... The Compute Engine C3 machine series, now available in Private Preview, is the first VM in the public cloud with the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor and with Google’s custom Intel IPU. C3 machine instances use offload hardware for more predictable and efficient compute, high-performance storage, and a programmable packet processing capability for low latency and accelerated, secure networking Disclosure: I work for GCP