Worth Reading: Xen on AWS Nitro NICs
If you find smart NICs interesting, you’ll like the latest blog post by James Hamilton explaining how AWS emulated Xen environment on Nitro hardware to keep old VM instances running on new hardware.
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If you needed a final confirmation that the cloud is the new mainframe this is it.
It already ticked:
And now it also features:
But that's not a problem, we just add one more layer of indirection :)
Thank you. Made my day ;)
some other info about Nitro with a security focus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwko4EXNmo&t=101s