AWS reveals 'Nitro'... Custom ASICs and boxes that do grunt work so EC2 hosts can just run instances

Also bare metal EC2, that KVM-based hypervisor and an entry to the security biz

AWS reveals 'Nitro' - custom ASICS and boxes that do grunt work so EC2 hosts can just run instances Also bare metal EC2 and a KVM-based hypervisor Amazon Web Services has revealed that it's spent four years working on a new architecture that offloads networking, storage and management tasks from EC2 host servers to dedicated hardware.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
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