Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
by _msw_ on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:32PM
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Hi! I'm from the EC2 engineering team.
This is a super challenging problem for general purpose virtualization stacks. EC2 has been working to avoid any guest VM interruptions. With the Nitro hypervisor, there are no management tasks that share CPUs with guest workloads.
See more here, including data from a real customer with real-time requirements running on EC2 under the Nitro hypervisor: https://youtu.be/e8DVmwj3OEs?t=1796
This is a super challenging problem for general purpose virtualization stacks. EC2 has been working to avoid any guest VM interruptions. With the Nitro hypervisor, there are no management tasks that share CPUs with guest workloads.
See more here, including data from a real customer with real-time requirements running on EC2 under the Nitro hypervisor: https://youtu.be/e8DVmwj3OEs?t=1796