3 ms·

Sovereign-by-design but still runs a software stack that is largely written and maintained by a US staff... Not as much as you might think. The most important

Sovereign-by-design but still runs a software stack that is largely written and maintained by a US staff... Not as much as you might think. The most important component -- Nitro -- basically runs out of Germany.

petcat 9mo ago
The AWS EC2 virtualization team invented and maintains the Nitro system. And that team is overwhelmingly based in Seattle, WA USA.
- cperciva 9mo ago
  You sure about that? Maybe it's just a coincidence but the low-level people I've talked to are almost never based in Seattle.
  - my123 9mo ago
    The Nitro Hypervisor team is (mostly) in Berlin :) The Nitro _card_ teams are elsewhere
    - cperciva 9mo ago
      Fair enough. The comment was about software, and to me the Nitro hypervisor is software while the Nitro card is hardware and firmware. ;-)
mike_d 9mo ago
You mean the same Germany that uses its domestic access to the bargain basement cloud providers like Hetzner and Contabo to de-anonymize Tor users for international law enforcement? Or the Germany that bought Crypto AG along with the CIA to backdoor encryption hardware?
meeshmuesh 9mo ago
Networking, firewalls, all infra OS including encryption is developed in the USA. Nitro is just one component and not necessarily the most important