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Comment by roboben

8 hours ago

yes only c8i, m8i and r8i instance types support it. It is called nested virtualization[1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-ec...

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thundergolfer  8 hours ago

Unfortunately supply is quite limited. If you want to horizontally scale on these instances you need to have a good relationship with AWS so they'll give you a big allocation before c9i is a thing.

  • roboben  8 hours ago

    also i found them much less stable than metal instances running into weird kvm failures

    • Reformedot  8 hours ago

      Yes, it is. It was a challenge to make it work smooth without metal. The scaling out speed was one of the main reasons