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Re:Metal as a Service by rwmj on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:34AM (#7840805)
Fair enough.

I was totally convinced that Amazon had baremetal instances available, but now I cannot find anything, so that could probably be a figment of my imagination.

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Re:Metal as a Service by kikoreis on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:30PM (#7841163)
All of Amazon's EC2 compute instances are run on top of Xen; there is an interesting Reddit AMA post with a lot of detail: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1e5o4p/iaman_exaws_eng...
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Re:Metal as a Service by rwmj on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @04:27AM (#7844578)
That is a very interesting thread, thanks. I think I was confusing dedicated tenancy with baremetal. Dedicated tenancy of course still runs on Xen.
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Re:Metal as a Service by YokoZar on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:10PM (#7842742)
I believe at one point the GPU instances were being given direct hardware access to the GPU as virtualized GPUs weren't yet a thing. So the GPU part was sort of baremetal I guess.
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Re:Metal as a Service by wmf on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:16PM (#7842779)
GPU instances are still Xen VMs, not bare metal.
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