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easton on Aug 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Virtualizing development environments in 2023

> Many cloud providers, like AWS inside VM-based EC2 instances, won't let you run a VM since they don't support nested virtualization

Does anyone know if there's a technical limitation to nested virt on EC2 or if it's just so people use .metal? I know Azure recently (1-2 years?) started offering it.

colinchartier on Aug 4, 2023 | [–]

Nested virt doesn't work with some things like OS snapshot/restore, so they might not support it to allow those features.

segfaltnh on Aug 4, 2023 | [–]

I can't imagine amazon prefers the use of metal vs. non-metal. As I understand the pricing they're equivalent.

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