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Am I missing something? This is for Nitro instances right, not EC2?

Nitro is when you get the whole bare metal server and you need to run your own Hypervisor/ OS (which is why they mentioned VMware). This instance hasn't been available to the public very long (like a year or two). Maybe I am missing something here but I think a lot of comments seem to be mis understanding what this is

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Disclaimer: I work at AWS, primarily in the compute space, but I'm not speaking in an official capacity.

As fguerraz mentioned, modern AWS instance families are basically all powered by Nitro, which refers to the ecosystem around the hypervisor and hardware acceleration cards utilized. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/

Thank you very much! I thought nitro referred to the bare metal offering only.

All modern instances families (regardless of their type) are powered by Nitro.

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