Amazon has several cloud offerings.
Some utilize Xen as their HyperVisor.

At least I was directly told this just last week.
Of course, the representative wasn't accurate on everything.

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From: John Haxby <[email protected]>
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On 23 July 2010 14:43, Paolo Campegiani <[email protected]> wrote:

> Xen is also being used in large scale deployments.  Amazon EC2 is pretty big
>
>Amazon doesn't use Xen for their HPC offer:
>
>http://aws.amazon.com/hpc-applications/
>
>"Cluster Compute instances require booting from an EBS-backed Amazon
>Machine Image (AMI) using Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
>virtualization"


Why does that mean that EC2 isn't Xen-based?  Or even that the HPC offering 
isn't Xen-based?

jch

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