Nitro: How the virtualization system powers the new generations of Amazon EC2
summary
Nitro is a hardware-and-software virtualization system AWS built to offload functions and provide hardware-based security for Amazon EC2. The talk reviews Nitro’s design and architecture, explains how its components and hardware security features enable new generations of EC2 instance types with expanded compute, storage, memory, and networking options.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:19Nitro in three parts: Nitro Cards, Nitro Security Chip, Nitro
- 2:54Nitro Card for Amazon VPC
- 6:02Nitro Card for Instance Storage
- 10:19Nitro Controller Card
- 13:37Nitro hardware Root of Trust
- 15:47Nitro Hypervisor Jitter
- 20:50New Cascade Lake processor
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