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AWS re:Invent 2017: C5 Instances and the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization (CMP332)

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Over the last 11 years, the Amazon EC2 virtualization platform has quietly evolved to take advantage of unique hardware and silicon, an accelerated network and storage architecture, and with the launch of C5 instances, a bespoke hypervisor to deliver the maximum amount of resources and performance to instances. Come to this deep dive to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our virtualization stack has evolved, including a peak at how our latest generation platform works under the covers. ...more
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Introduction

0:00

Virtualization

2:36

What is Virtualization

6:27

The VMM

8:41

The hypervisor

11:40

Hardware virtualization

14:09

AWS reInvent 2012

15:05

C1 Instance

16:43

C3 Instance

20:01

C4 Instance

22:10

X1 Instance

24:23

Instant Storage

26:19

I3 Instance

27:29

VMware on AWS

32:31

Will Existing Instances Work on C5

35:01

Do I Need to Recertify

35:42

What About Future Instance Types

36:31

Whats Next

37:10

Questions

38:16

Mediums

38:41

Interrupts

39:28

Intel SGX

41:46

Has the EBS and networking traffic been separated

42:26

Is P3 based on Nitro or not

43:19

Does that mean youre physically having a separate Nitro card

44:05

Is it available for sale

45:02

Verdejo

45:39

Gosset

47:41

Level 3 Cache

48:29

Burstable Performance

49:55

NVMe Drives

51:40

Why use bare metal

52:44

Internal usage of hardware acceleration

54:52

What is the business value

56:13

AWS accustomed army

57:00
AWS re:Invent 2017: C5 Instances and the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization (CMP332)
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Over the last 11 years, the Amazon EC2 virtualization platform has quietly evolved to take advantage of unique hardware and silicon, an accelerated network and storage architecture, and with the launch of C5 instances, a bespoke hypervisor to deliver the maximum amount of resources and performance to instances. Come to this deep dive to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our virtualization stack has evolved, including a peak at how our latest generation platform works under the covers.

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