re:Invent 2017 – AWS Launches a Bare-Metal ECC2 Hypervisor with a New I3 Instance Amazon Web Services has officially launched its new bare metal hypervisor. During the Tuesday night keynote at the 2017 re-Invent conference in Las Vegas, Peter DeSantis (Vice President of AWS Global Infrastructure) announced the EC2 Bare Metal Instances. The EC2 bare metal technology is now available for public preview, as well as the new i3.metal instance. This technology is the result of many years of work at AWS under the “Nitro” effort. DeSantis stated that the goal of that effort was to make the EC2 instance “indistinguishable” from bare metal. According to DeSantis, the C3 was the first EC2 instance that was created under Nitro. The C3 was launched at the 2013 re-Invent conference. It offloaded the network processing part to the Nitro system hardware. The C4 was next and offloaded storage. The C5 instance, which was released this month, was the first to offload the entire EC2 stack, from networking and storage to management and security to monitoring, onto dedicated hardware. The C5 was developed using technology AWS acquired when it bought Annapurna Labs in 2015. It marked the debut of the “new EC2 Hypervisor”, DeSantis stated. The new hypervisor technology is also used in the VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid offering. It was launched in August and updated this week. AWS evangelist Jeff Barr explained that VMware wanted to run its virtualization stack directly on the AWS Cloud. This would allow their customers to access the reliability, security, and reliability that AWS offers. AWS now makes its bare-metal technology available to all its customers. Barr says that the new i3.metal instance is available for public preview starting Tuesday. It uses EC2 bare metal technology to “allow the operating system to directly run on the underlying hardware while still giving access to all the benefits of cloud computing.” The i3.metal instance is powered by two Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors. It has 512GiB memory and 15.2TB storage. To preview the i3.metal in-progress instance, sign up here. More information from AWS Re:Invent 2017:

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re:Invent 2017 – AWS Launches a Bare-Metal ECC2 Hypervisor with a New I3 Instance Amazon Web Services has officially launched its new bare metal hypervisor. During the Tuesday night keynote at the 2017 re-Invent conference in Las Vegas, Peter DeSantis (Vice President of AWS Global Infrastructure) announced the EC2 Bare Metal Instances. The EC2 bare metal technology is now available for public preview, as well as the new i3.metal instance. This technology is the result of many years of work at AWS under the “Nitro” effort. DeSantis stated that the goal of that effort was to make the EC2 instance “indistinguishable” from bare metal. According to DeSantis, the C3 was the first EC2 instance that was created under Nitro. The C3 was launched at the 2013 re-Invent conference. It offloaded the network processing part to the Nitro system hardware. The C4 was next and offloaded storage. The C5 instance, which was released this month, was the first to offload the entire EC2 stack, from networking and storage to management and security to monitoring, onto dedicated hardware. The C5 was developed using technology AWS acquired when it bought Annapurna Labs in 2015. It marked the debut of the “new EC2 Hypervisor”, DeSantis stated. The new hypervisor technology is also used in the VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid offering. It was launched in August and updated this week. AWS evangelist Jeff Barr explained that VMware wanted to run its virtualization stack directly on the AWS Cloud. This would allow their customers to access the reliability, security, and reliability that AWS offers. AWS now makes its bare-metal technology available to all its customers. Barr says that the new i3.metal instance is available for public preview starting Tuesday. It uses EC2 bare metal technology to “allow the operating system to directly run on the underlying hardware while still giving access to all the benefits of cloud computing.” The i3.metal instance is powered by two Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors. It has 512GiB memory and 15.2TB storage. To preview the i3.metal in-progress instance, sign up here. More information from AWS Re:Invent 2017:

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