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AWS Nitro System

The AWS Nitro System is the Amazon Web Services server platform that offloads virtualization functions to dedicated hardware.

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The AWS Nitro System is a combination of hardware and software that Amazon Web Services (AWS) built for Amazon EC2 instances. It moves networking, storage and security functions onto dedicated cards and uses a lightweight hypervisor, freeing server compute for customer workloads.

This design lets AWS offer instances with minimal virtualization overhead as well as bare-metal instances. Its dedicated chips are designed by Annapurna Labs.

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