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by paulfurtado 1399 days ago
Since 2017, all new aws instance types have been "nitro", which is based on kvm https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtual...

AWS does continue to support older instance types, however, but only legacy workloads are using them. They actually now even run the XEN based legacy instance types on nitro. https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/11/xen-on-nitro-aws-n...