[romantomjak]

This was quite eye opening. Never thought they go to such great lengths to optimise their virtual (and physical) machines

[ignoramous]

I want to know more about their TCP replacement: the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) [0].

Seems like Nitro is radically changing AWS' hardware story.

[0] https://twitter.com/ogawa_tter/status/1108767124476981248/ph...

Edit: Here's a paper on it https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399 and a mini-discussion on twitter: https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1297223835519815681

[nieksand]

You might find this interesting too:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali...

It shows how various subsystems improved as virtualization evolved at AWS.