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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: AWS Virtualization with Anthony Liguori
Description: Amazon’s virtual server instances have come a long way since the early days of EC2. There are now a wide variety of available configuration options for spinning up an EC2 instance, which can be chosen from based on the workload that will be scheduled onto a virtual machine. There are also Fargate containers and AWS Lambda functions, creating even more options for someone who wants to deploy virtualized infrastructure.The high demand for virtual machines has led to Amazon moving down the stack, designing custom hardware such as the Nitro security chip, and low level software su...