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briffle | 17 days ago

As do all the other cloud providers, that have had this for years. like GCP and Azure, for 9 years now.

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otterley|17 days ago

Architecturally they’re all quite different.

If my sources are correct, GCP did not launch on dedicated hardware like EC2 did, which raised customer concerns about isolation guarantees. (Not sure if that’s still the case.) And Azure didn’t have hardware-assisted I/O virtualization ("Azure Boost") until just a few years ago and it's not as mature as Nitro.

Even today, Azure doesn’t support nested virtualization the way one might ordinarily expect them to. It's only supported with Hyper-V on the guest, i.e., Windows.

laurencerowe|17 days ago

Nested virtualisation with KVM works on the Linux GitHub Actions runners which I believe run on Azure.